40 literary terms you should know

nevver:

  1. Aphorism
  2. Apostrophe
  3. Applicability
  4. Bete noire
  5. Bildungsroman
  6. Bowdlerize
  7. Byronic hero
  8. Caesura
  9. Death of the author
  10. Denouement
  11. Didactic
  12. Epigraph
  13. Epistolary
  14. Fin de siecle
  15. Foil
  16. Hamartia
  17. Heresy of paraphrase
  18. Hubris
  19. Humours
  20. In medias res
  21. Intertextuality
  22. Irony
  23. Literary agent hypothesis
  24. Magic realism
  25. Malapropism
  26. Meiosis
  27. Meta
  28. Mise en scene
  29. Picaresque
  30. Purple prose
  31. Roman a clef
  32. Scene a faire
  33. Sobriquet
  34. Syllogism
  35. Synecdoche
  36. Tranche de vie
  37. Trope
  38. Ubi sunt
  39. Unreliable narrator
  40. Verisimilitude
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