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Important
Literary Terms
Listed below are some
common (and not so common) literary terms that you should be familiar
with. This is, of course, not a complete list of terms – it is
simply a list of terms that I will expect you to be ready to use in
discussion and papers. If you cannot define these terms, be sure
to look them up. It’s a good idea to have a dictionary of
literary terms on hand in any case, but if you don’t have one, you can
also find a number of them at the library. I’ve listed some here:• The concise Oxford dictionary of literary terms [electronic resource] / Chris Baldick. INTERNET DATABASE • A glossary of literary terms / M.H. Abrams. PN41 .A184 1988 • Literary terms : a dictionary / by Karl Beckson and Arthur Ganz. PN41 .B334 1975 REFERENCE • A dictionary of literary terms / J. A. Cuddon. PN41 .C83 1977B REFERENCE • The Bedford glossary of critical and literary terms / Ross Murfin, Supryia M. Ray. PN44.5 .M86 1998 • Literary terms and criticism: a student's guide / John Peck and Martin Coyle. PN44.5 .P38 1984 • A handbook of literary terms / compiled by H. L. Yelland, S. C. J. Jones and K. S. W. Easton. PN44.5 .Y4 1966 • Critical terms for literary study / edited by Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin. PN81 .C84 1995 Terms: • Alliteration • Allusion • Anadiplosis • Analogy • Anaphora • Antagonist • Antithesis • Aphorism • Apostrophe • Assonance • Ballad • Bardolatry • Blank Verse • Blazon • Caesura • Conceit (n.) • Consonance • Couplet • Doggerel • Dramatic Monologue • End-rhyme • End-stopped • Enjambment • Folio • Foot • Genre • Heroic Couplet • Hyperbole • Iamb • Imagery • In Medias Res • Irony • Kenning • Litotes • Lyric • Masque • Metaphor • Meter (Metre) • Metonymy • Monologue • Octavo • Onomatopoeia • Oral tradition • Oxymoron • Panegyric • Paradox • Parody • Pastoral • Pentameter • Personification • Petrarchan • Prologue • Prose • Prosody • Pun • Quarto • Scansion • Satire • Simile • Soliloquy • Sonnet • Stanza • Synecdoche • Synonym • Wit |