BLOCK 8: LITERARY VOCABULARY

1. Allegory

2. Alliteration

3. Allusion

4. Anaphora

5. Antithesis

6. Apostrophe

7. Bathos

8. Chiasmus

9. Circumlocution

10. Conceit

11. Diacope

12. Hyperbole

13. Imagery

14. Irony

15. Juxtaposition

16. Kenning

17. Litotes

18. Metaphor

19. Metonymy

20. Onomatopoeia

21. Oxymoron

22. Paradox

23. Pathetic fallacy

24. Personification

25. Prolepsis

26. Simile

27. Synechdoche

28. Synesthesia

29. Transferred epithet

30. Zeugma

1. Anti-climax

2. Anti-hero

3. Aside

4. Byronic hero

5. Bowdlerize

6. Carpe diem

7. Celtic myths

8. Dream vision

9. Deus ex machina

10. Epigraph

11. Epilogue

12. Epiphany

13. Epitaph

14. Epithet

15. Eulogy and Elegy

16. Euphemism

17. Inversion

18. Incunabula

19. Malapropism

20. Motif

21. Palinode

22. Parody

23. Pleonasm

24. Poetic diction

25. Poetic justice

26. Poetic license

27. Purple patch

28. Satire

29. Soliloquy

30. Spoonerism

31. Stream of consciousness

1. Apocalyptic literature

2. Bildungsroman

3. Campus novel

4. Chivalric romance

5. Dystopian 

6. Epistolary

7. Gothic

8. Historic

9. Magic realism

10. Memoir

11. Metafiction

12. Mystery

13. Picaresque

14. Roman e clef

15. Science fiction

16. Trickster tale

1. First, second, and third person narrator

2. Omniscient narrator

3. Limited narrator

4. Unreliable narrator

5 .Objective narrator

6. Self-conscious narrator

1. Protagonist

2. Antagonist

3. Major and Minor characters

4. Dynamic and Static characters

5. Flat and Round characters

6. Stock characters