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-	The following is a list of '''literary terms'''; that is, those words used in discussion, classification, criticism, and analysis of [[literature]].	+
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-	:''See also: [[Glossary of poetry terms]], [[Literary criticism]], [[Literary theory]]''	+
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-	==A==	+
-		+
-	*[[Abecedarius]]	+
-	*[[Academic drama]]	+
-	*[[Acatalectic]]	+
-	*[[Accent (poetry)|Accent]]	+
-	*[[Accentual verse]]	+
-	*[[Acrostic]]	+
-	*	+
-	*[[Anachronism]]	+
-	*[[Analects]]	+
-	*[[Analogy]]	+
-	*[[Anapest]]	+
-	*[[Anaphora]]	+
-	*[[Anastrophe]]	+
-	*[[Anecdote]]	+
-	*[[Angry Young Men]]	+
-	*[[Annal]]	+
-	*[[Annotation]]	+
-	*[[Antagonist]]	+
-	*[[Antepenult]]	+
-	*[[Anthology]]	+
-	*[[Anticlimax]]	+
-	*[[Anti-hero]]	+
-	*[[Anti-masque]]	+
-	*[[Anti-romance]]	+
-	*[[Antinovel]]	+
-	*[[Antistrophe]]	+
-	*[[Antithesis]]	+
-	*[[Antonym]]	+
-	*[[Aphorism]]	+
-	*[[Apocope]]	+
-	*[[Apocrypha (fiction)|Apocrypha]]	+
-	*[[Apollonian and Dionysian]]	+
-	*[[Apologue]]	+
-	*[[Apology]]	+
-	*[[Apothegm]]	+
-	*[[Aposiopesis]]	+
-	*[[Apostrophe (figure of speech)|Apostrophe]]	+
-	*[[Apron stage]]	+
-	*[[Arcadia (utopia)|Arcadia]]	+
-	*[[Archaism]]	+
-	*[[Archetype]]	+
-	*[[Aristeia]]	+
-	*[[Argument]]	+
-	*[[Arsis and thesis|Arsis]]	+
-	*[[Art for art's sake]]	+
-	*[[Asemic]]	+
-	*[[Aside]]	+
-	*[[Assonance]]	+
-	*[[Atmosphere]]	+
-	*[[Attitude]]	+
-	*[[Aubade|Aube]]	+
-	*[[Aubade]]	+
-	*[[Audience]]	+
-	*[[Autobiography]]	+
-	*[[Autotelic]]	+
-	*[[Avant-garde]]	+
-		+
-	==B==	+
-	*[[Ballad]]	+
-	*[[Ballade]]	+
-	*[[Ballad stanza]]	+
-	*[[Bard]]	+
-	*[[Baroque]]	+
-	*[[Bathos]]	+
-	*[[Beast epic]]	+
-	*[[Beast poetry]]	+
-	*[[Beat Generation]]	+
-	*[[Beginning rhyme]]	+
-	*[[Belles-lettres]]	+
-	*[[Bestiary]]	+
-	*[[Beta reader]]	+
-	*[[Bibliography]]	+
-	*[[Bildungsroman]]	+
-	*[[Biography]]	+
-	*[[Black humor]]	+
-	*[[Blank verse]]	+
-	*[[Bloomsbury Group]]	+
-	*[[Body (writing)|Body]]	+
-	*[[Bombast]]	+
-	*[[Boulevard drama]]	+
-	*[[Bourgeosis drama]]	+
-	*[[Bouts-rimés]]	+
-	*[[Thomas Bowdler|Bowdlerize]]	+
-	*[[Breviloquence]]	+
-	*[[Broadside]]	+
-	*[[Burlesque]]	+
-	*[[Burletta]]	+
-	*[[Burns stanza]]	+
-	*[[Buskin]]	+
-	*[[Byronic hero]]	+
-		+
-	==C==	+
-	*[[Caca]]	+
-	*[[Cadence]]	+
-	*[[Caesura]]	+
-	*[[Calligram]]	+
-	*[[Western canon|Canon]]	+
-	*[[Canso (song)|canso]]	+
-	*[[Canticum]]	+
-	*[[Canto]]	+
-	*[[Canzone]]	+
-	*''[[Capa y espada]]''	+
-	*[[Captivity narrative]]	+
-	*[[Caricature]]	+
-	*''[[Carmen figuratum]]''	+
-	*''[[Carpe diem]]''	+
-	*[[Catachresis]]	+
-	*[[Acatalectic|Catalectic]]	+
-	*[[Acatalectic|Catalexis]]	+
-	*[[Catastrophe]]	+
-	*[[Catharsis]]	+
-	*[[Caudate sonnet]]	+
-	*[[Cavalier drama]]	+
-	*[[Cavalier poetry]]	+
-	*[[Celtic Renaissance]]	+
-	*[[Celtic Twilight]]	+
-	*[[Caesura|Cesura]]	+
-	*[[Great chain of being|Chain of Being]]	+
-	*[[Chain verse]]	+
-	*''[[Chanson de geste]]''	+
-	*[[Chansonnier]]	+
-	*[[Chant royal]]	+
-	*[[Sea shanty|Chantey]]	+
-	*[[Sea shanty|Chanty]]	+
-	*[[Chapbook]]	+
-	*[[Fictional character|Character]]	+
-	*[[Characterization]]	+
-	*[[Charactonym]]	+
-	*[[Chaucerian stanza]]	+
-	*[[Chiasmus]]	+
-	*[[Chivalric romance]]	+
-	*[[Choriamb]]	+
-	*[[Choriamb]]us	+
-	*[[Chorus (disambiguation)|Chorus]]	+
-	*[[Chronicle]]	+
-	*[[Chronical play]]	+
-	*[[Cinquain]]	+
-	*[[Classicism]]	+
-	*[[Classification (literature)]]	+
-	*[[Peter Dale's classification of rhymes|Classification of rhymes]] ([[Peter Dale]])	+
-	*[[Clerihew]]	+
-	*[[Cliché]]	+
-	*[[Climax]]	+
-	*[[Capa y espada|Cloak-and-sword play]]	+
-	*[[Closed heroic couplet]]	+
-	*[[Closet drama]]	+
-	*''[[Comédie larmoyante]]''	+
-	*[[Comedy]]	+
-	*[[Comedy of errors]]	+
-	*[[Comedy of humors]]	+
-	*[[Comedy of intrigue]]	+
-	*[[Comedy of manners]]	+
-	*[[Comic relief|Comedic relief]]	+
-	*''[[Commedia dell'arte]]''	+
-	*[[Comic relief]]	+
-	*[[Common measure]]	+
-	*[[Commonplace book]]	+
-	*[[Common rhyme]]	+
-	*''[[Comoedia erudate]]''	+
-	*[[Comparative linguistics]]	+
-	*[[Compensation]]	+
-	*[[Complaint]]	+
-	*[[Conceit]]	+
-	*[[Concordance (publishing)|Concordance]]	+
-	*[[Concrete universal]]	+
-	*[[Confessional literature]]	+
-	*[[Confidant]]/[[confidant]]e	+
-	*[[Conflict]]	+
-	*[[Connotation]]	+
-	*[[Consistency]]	+
-	*[[Consonance]]	+
-	*[[Contradiction]]	+
-	*[[Contrast]]	+
-	*[[Convention (norm)|Convention]]	+
-	*[[Copyright]]	+
-	*[[Subplot|Counterplot]]	+
-	*''[[Coup de théâtre]]''	+
-	*[[Couplet]]	+
-	*[[Courtesy book]]	+
-	*[[Courtly love]]	+
-	*[[Cowleyan ode]]	+
-	*[[Incunabulum|Cradle books]]	+
-	*[[Craft cycle]]	+
-	*[[Crisis]]	+
-	*[[Literary criticism|Criticism]]	+
-	*[[Acrostic|Cross acrostic]]	+
-	*[[Crown of sonnets]]	+
-	*[[Curtain raiser]]	+
-	*[[Curtal sonnet]]	+
-		+
-	==D==	+
-	*[[Dactyl (poetry)|Dactyl]]	+
-	*[[Dada]]	+
-	*[[Peter Dale's classification of rhymes|Dale's classification of rhymes]]	+
-	*[[Dandy]]ism	+
-	*''[[Débat]]''	+
-	*[[Decadence]]	+
-	*[[Decasyllabic verse]]	+
-	*[[Decorum]]	+
-	*[[Denotation]]	+
-	*[[Denouement]]	+
-	*Description	+
-	*[[Descriptive lingustics]]	+
-	*[[Detective fiction|Detective story]]	+
-	*''[[Deus ex machina]]''	+
-	*[[Deuteragonist]]	+
-	*[[Dialect]]	+
-	*[[Dialogue]]	+
-	*[[Dibrach]]	+
-	*[[Diction]]	+
-	*[[Didactic]]	+
-	*[[Digest]]	+
-	*[[Digression]]	+
-	*[[Dime novel]]	+
-	*[[Diameter]]	+
-	*[[Dipody]]	+
-	*[[Dirge]]	+
-	*[[Dissociation of sensibility]]	+
-	*[[Dissonance]]	+
-	*[[Distich]]	+
-	*[[Distributed Stress]]	+
-	*[[Dithyramb]]	+
-	*[[Diverbium]]	+
-	*[[Divine afflatus]]	+
-	*[[Doggerel]]	+
-	*''[[Dolce stil nuove]]''	+
-	*[[Domestic tragedy]]	+
-	*''[[Donnée]]''	+
-	*''[[Doppelgänger]]''	+
-	*[[Double]]	+
-	*[[Double rhyme]]	+
-	*[[Drama]]	+
-	*[[Sensibility|Drama of sensibility]]	+
-	*[[Dramatic character]]	+
-	*[[Dramatic irony]]	+
-	*[[Dramatic lyric]]	+
-	*[[Dramatic monologue]]	+
-	*[[Dramatic proverb]]	+
-	*''[[Dramatis personae]]''	+
-	*[[Dramatugy]]	+
-	*[[Dream allegory]]	+
-	*[[Dream vision]]	+
-	*[[Droll]]	+
-	*[[Dumb show]]	+
-	*[[Duodecimo]]	+
-	*[[Duologue]]	+
-	*[[Duple meter]]/[[duple rhythm]]	+
-	*[[Dystopia]]	+
-		+
-	==E==	+
-	*[[Echo verse]]	+
-	*[[Eclogue]]	+
-	*[[Edition]]	+
-	*[[Elegiac meter|Elegiac couplet]]	+
-	*[[Elegiac meter]]	+
-	*[[Elegy]]	+
-	*[[Elision]]	+
-	*[[Emblem]]	+
-	*[[Emblem book]]	+
-	*[[Emendation]]	+
-	*[[Emotive language]]	+
-	*[[Encomiastic verse]]	+
-	*[[End rhyme]]	+
-	*[[End-stopped line]]	+
-	*[[English sonnet]]	+
-	*[[Enjambment]]	+
-	*[[Entr'acte]]	+
-	*[[Envoy]]/[[envoi]]	+
-	*''[[Èpater le bourgeois]]''	+
-	*[[Epic poetry]]	+
-	*[[Epic simile]]	+
-	*[[Epic Theater]]	+
-	*[[Epigram]]	+
-	*[[Epigraph]]	+
-	*[[Epilogue]]	+
-	*[[Epiphany (feeling)|Epiphany]]	+
-	*[[Episode]]	+
-	*[[Epistle]]	+
-	*[[Epistolary novel]]	+
-	*[[Epistrophe]]	+
-	*[[Epitaph]]	+
-	*[[Epithalamion]]	+
-	*[[Epithet]]	+
-	*[[Epizeuxis]]	+
-	*[[Epode]]	+
-	*[[Eponymous author]]	+
-	*[[Equivalence]]	+
-	*''[[Erziehungsroman]]''	+
-	*[[Essay]]	+
-	*[[Ethos]]	+
-	*[[Eulogy]]	+
-	*[[Euphony]]	+
-	*[[Euphuism]]	+
-	*[[Evidence]]	+
-	*[[Exegesis]]	+
-	*[[Exemplum]]	+
-	*[[Existentialism]]	+
-	*[[Exordium]]	+
-	*[[Experimental novel]]	+
-	*''[[Explication de texte]]''	+
-	*[[Dramatic structure#Exposition|Exposition]]	+
-	*[[Expressionism]]	+
-	*[[Extended metaphor]]	+
-	*[[Extension]]	+
-	*[[Acatalectic|Extrametrical verse]]	+
-	*[[Extravaganza]]	+
-	*[[Eye rhyme]]	+
-		+
-	==F==	+
-	*[[Fable]]	+
-	*[[Fabliau]]	+
-	*[[Falling action]]	+
-	*[[Falling rhythm]]	+
-	*[[Fancy and imagination]]	+
-	*[[Fantasy]]	+
-	*[[Farce]]	+
-	*[[Feeling]]	+
-	*[[Feminine ending]]	+
-	*[[Feminine rhyme]]	+
-	*[[Fiction]]	+
-	*[[Figurative language]]	+
-	*[[Figure of speech]]	+
-	*''[[Fin de siècle]]''	+
-	*[[Flashback (literary technique)|Flashback]]	+
-	*[[Flat character]]	+
-	*[[Fleshly school]]	+
-	*[[Foil]]	+
-	*[[Folio]]	+
-	*[[Folk drama]]	+
-	*[[Folklore]]	+
-	*[[Folk tale]]	+
-	*[[Foot (prosody)|Foot]]	+
-	*[[Foreshadowing]]	+
-	*[[Form]]	+
-	*[[Four levels of meaning]]	+
-	*[[Four meanings of a poem]]	+
-	*[[Fourteener (poetry)|Fourteener]]	+
-	*[[Frame story]]	+
-	*[[Free verse]]	+
-	*[[French forms]]	+
-	*[[Freytag's pyramid]]	+
-	*[[Fugitives and Agrarians]]	+
-	*[[Fustian]]	+
-	*[[Futurism (art)|Futurism]]	+
-		+
-	==G==	+
-	*[[Gallows humor]]	+
-	*[[Gamebooks]]	+
-	*[[Gathering]]	+
-	*[[Genetic fallacy]]	+
-	*[[Genius and talent]]	+
-	*[[Literary genre|Genre]]	+
-	*[[Georgian poetry]]	+
-	*[[Georgic]]	+
-	*[[Gesta]]	+
-	*[[Gloss]]	+
-	*[[Gnomic verse]]	+
-	*[[Golden line]]	+
-	*[[Goliard|Goliardic verse]]	+
-	*[[Gongorism]]	+
-	*[[Gonzo journalism]]	+
-	*[[Gothic novel]]	+
-	*[[Grand Guignol]]	+
-	*[[Churchyard poets|Graveyard poetry]]	+
-	*[[Churchyard poets|Graveyard school]]	+
-	*[[Greek tragedy]]	+
-	*[[Grub Street]]	+
-	*[[Grundyism]]	+
-	*[[Grand Guignol|Guignol]]	+
-		+
-	==H==	+
-	*[[Hagiography]]	+
-	*[[Hagiography|Hagiology]]	+
-	*[[Haiku]]	+
-	*[[Half rhyme]]	+
-	*[[Hamartia]]	+
-	*[[Handwaving#Literary criticism|Handwaving]]	+
-	*[[Headless line]]	+
-	*[[Head rhyme]]	+
-	*[[Hebraism-Hellenism]]	+
-	*"[[The Hedgehog and the Fox]]"	+
-	*[[Hemistich]]	+
-	*[[Hendecasyllable]]	+
-	*[[Hendecasyllabic verse]]	+
-	*[[Heptameter]]	+
-	*[[Heptastrich]]	+
-	*[[Heresy of Paraphrase]]	+
-	*[[Hero]]	+
-	*[[Heroic couplets]]	+
-	*[[Heroic drama]]	+
-	*[[Heroic quatrain]]	+
-	*[[Heroic stanza]]	+
-	*[[Hexameter]]	+
-	*[[Hexastich]]	+
-	*[[Hiatus (linguistics)|Hiatus]]	+
-	*[[High comedy]]	+
-	*[[Higher criticism]]	+
-	*[[Historical linguistics]]	+
-	*[[Historical novel]]	+
-	*[[Historic present]]	+
-	*[[History play]]	+
-	*''[[Haiku|Hokku]]'' see [[Haiku]]	+
-	*[[Holograph]]	+
-	*[[Homeric epithet]]	+
-	*[[Epic simile|Homeric simile]]	+
-	*[[Homily]]	+
-	*[[Horatian ode]]	+
-	*[[Horatian satire]]	+
-	*[[Hornbook]]	+
-	*[[Hovering accent]]	+
-	*[[Hubris]]	+
-	*[[Hudibrastic verse]]	+
-	*[[Humor]]	+
-	*[[Humours]]	+
-	*[[Hubris|Hybris]]	+
-	*[[Hymn]]	+
-	*[[Hymnal stanza]]	+
-	*[[Hyperbole]]	+
-	*[[Hypercatalectic]]	+
-	*[[Hypermetrical]]	+
-	*[[Hypocorism]]	+
-	*[[Hysteron-proteron]]	+
-		+
-	==I==	+
-	*[[Iambic pentameter]]	+
-	*[[Ideology]]	+
-	*[[Idiom]]	+
-	*[[Imagery]]	+
-	*[[Imagism]]	+
-	*[[Impressionism]]	+
-	*[[Inference]]	+
-	*''[[In medias res]]''	+
-	*[[Internal rhyme]]	+
-	*[[Interpretation]]	+
-	*[[Intertextuality]]	+
-	*[[Irony]]	+
-		+
-	==J==	+
-	*[[Jacobean era]]	+
-	*[[Jeremiad]]	+
-	*[[Journal]]	+
-	*[[Judicial criticism]]	+
-	*Juncture	+
-	*[[Juvenalian satire]]	+
-	*[[Juxtaposition]]	+
-		+
-	==K==	+
-	*[[Kabuki]]	+
-	*[[Catharsis|Katharsis]]	+
-	*[[Kenning]]	+
-	*"[[Received Pronunciation|King's English]]"	+
-	*''[[Kitsch]]''	+
-	*''[[Künstlerroman]]''	+
-		+
-	==L==	+
-	*[[Lai]]	+
-	*[[Lake Poets]]	+
-	*[[Lament]]	+
-	*[[Lampoon]]	+
-	*''[[Art for art's sake|L'art pour l'art]]''	+
-	*[[Laureate]]	+
-	*[[Lai|Lay]]	+
-	*[[Bookbinding|Leaf]]	+
-	*[[Legend]]	+
-	*[[Legitimate theater]]	+
-	*[[Leonine rhyme]]	+
-	*[[Intellectual|Letters]]	+
-	*[[Level stress]] ([[even accent]])	+
-	*[[Libretto]]	+
-	*[[Light ending]]	+
-	*[[Light poetry]]	+
-	*[[Light rhyme]]	+
-	*[[Light stress]]	+
-	*[[Light verse]]	+
-	*[[Limerick]]	+
-	*[[Linguistics]]	+
-	*[[Linked rhyme]]	+
-	*[[Spenserian sonnet|Link sonnet]]	+
-	*[[Literary ballad]]	+
-	*[[Literary criticism]]	+
-	*[[Literary epic]]	+
-	*[[Literary realism]]	+
-	*[[Literary theory]]	+
-	*[[Literature]]	+
-	*[[Litotes]]	+
-	*[[Intellectual|Litterateur]]	+
-	*[[Liturgical drama]]	+
-	*[[Living newspaper]]	+
-	*[[Local color]]	+
-	*[[Logaoedic]]	+
-	*[[Logical fallacy]]	+
-	*[[Logical stress]]	+
-	*[[Logos]]	+
-	*[[Long measure]]	+
-	*[[Loose sentence]]	+
-	*[[Lost Generation]]	+
-	*[[Low comedy]]	+
-	*[[Lyric]]	+
-		+
-	==M==	+
-	*[[Macaronic verse]]	+
-	*[[Madrigal (music)|Madrigal]]	+
-	*[[Magical realism]]	+
-	*[[Malapropism]]	+
-	*''[[Märchen]]''	+
-	*[[Marginalia]]	+
-	*[[Marinism]]	+
-	*[[Marivauge]]	+
-	*[[Marxist literary criticism]]	+
-	*[[Masculine ending]]	+
-	*[[Masculine rhyme]]	+
-	*[[Commedia dell'arte|Masked comedy]]	+
-	*[[Masque]]	+
-	*[[Maxim (saying)|Maxim]]	+
-	*[[Meaning (linguistic)|Meaning]]	+
-	*[[Medieval drama]]	+
-	*[[Meiosis]]	+
-	*[[Melic poetry]]	+
-	*[[Melodrama]]	+
-	*[[Memoir]]	+
-	*[[Menippean satire]]	+
-	*[[Acrostic|Mesostich]]	+
-	*[[Metaphor]]	+
-	*[[Metaphysical conceit]]	+
-	*[[Metaphysical poetry]]	+
-	*[[Meter (poetry)|Meter]]	+
-	*[[Metonymy]]	+
-	*[[Meter (poetry)|Metre]]	+
-	*[[Metrical accent]]	+
-	*[[Metrical foot]]	+
-	*[[Middle Comedy]]	+
-	*''[[Miles gloriosus]]''	+
-	*[[Miltonic sonnet]]	+
-	*[[Mime]]	+
-	*[[Mimesis]]	+
-	*[[Minnesinger]]	+
-	*[[Minstrel]]	+
-	*[[Miracle play]]	+
-	*[[Anthology|Miscellanies]]	+
-	*''[[Mise en scène]]''	+
-	*[[Metaphor|Mixed metaphor]]	+
-	*[[Mock epic]]	+
-	*[[Mock heroic]]	+
-	*[[Mode]]	+
-	*[[Modernism]]	+
-	*[[Monodrama]]	+
-	*[[Monody]]	+
-	*[[Monograph]]	+
-	*[[Monologue]]	+
-	*[[Monometer]]	+
-	*[[Monopody]]	+
-	*[[Monostich]]	+
-	*[[Monograph]]	+
-	*[[Setting tone|Mood]]	+
-	*[[Mora (linguistics)|Mora]]	+
-	*[[Moral]]	+
-	*[[Morality play]]	+
-	*[[Motif (literature)|Motif]]	+
-	*[[Motivation (literature)|Motivation]]	+
-	*[[Literary movement|Movement]]	+
-	*[[Mummery]]	+
-	*[[Muses]]	+
-	*[[Musical comedy]]	+
-	*[[Mystery play]]	+
-	*[[Mythology]]	+
-		+
-	==N==	+
-	*[[Point of view (literature)|Narrative point of view]]	+
-	*[[Narrator]]	+
-	*[[Naturalism (literature)|Naturalism]]	+
-	*[[Non-fiction]]	+
-	*[[Non-fiction novel]]	+
-	*[[Novel]]	+
-	*[[Novelette]]	+
-	*[[Novella]]	+
-	*[[Novelle]]	+
-		+
-	==O==	+
-	*[[Objective correlative]]	+
-	*[[Objective criticism]]	+
-	*[[Obligatory scene]]	+
-	*[[Octameter]]	+
-	*[[Octave]]	+
-	*[[Ode]]	+
-	*[[Oedipus complex]]	+
-	*[[Onomatopoeia]]	+
-	*[[Open couplet]]	+
-	*[[Oxymoron]]	+
-		+
-	==P==	+
-	*[[Palinode]]	+
-	*[[Pantoum]]	+
-	*[[Pantun]]	+
-	*[[Parable]]	+
-	*[[Paraclausithyron]]	+
-	*[[Paradelle]]	+
-	*[[Paradox]]	+
-	*[[Pararhyme]]	+
-	*[[Partimen]]	+
-	*[[Pastourelle]]	+
-	*[[Pathetic fallacy]]	+
-	*[[Pathya Vat]]	+
-	*[[Parallelism]]	+
-	*[[Parody]]	+
-	*[[Pastoral]]	+
-	*[[Pathos]]	+
-	*[[Pentameter]]	+
-	*[[Periodic sentence]]	+
-	*[[Peripetia]]	+
-	*[[perspective]]	+
-	*[[Persona]]	+
-	*[[Personification]]	+
-	*''[[Well-made play|Pièce bien faite]]''	+
-	*[[Picaresque novel]]	+
-	*[[Platonic]]	+
-	*[[Plot (narrative)|Plot]]	+
-	*[[Poetry|Poem]]	+
-	*[[Poem and song]]	+
-	*[[Poetic diction]]	+
-	*[[Poetic transrealism]]	+
-	*[[Poetry]]	+
-	*[[Point of view (literature)|Point of view]]	+
-	*[[Polysyndeton]]	+
-	*[[Post-colonialism]]	+
-	*[[Postmodernism]]	+
-	*[[Pound's Ideogrammic Method]]	+
-	*[[Prologue]]	+
-	*[[Prose]]	+
-	*[[Prosimetrum]]	+
-	*[[Prosody]]	+
-	*[[Protagonist]]	+
-	*[[Proverb]]	+
-	*[[Pruning poem]]	+
-	*[[Psychoanalytic literary criticism]]	+
-	*[[Psychoanalytic theory]]	+
-	*[[Pun]]	+
-	*[[Purple patch]]	+
-	*[[Pyrrhic]]	+
-		+
-	==Q==	+
-	*[[Quadrivium]]	+
-	*[[Quantitative verse]]	+
-	*[[Quantity]]	+
-	*[[Quarto]]	+
-	*[[Quatorzain]]	+
-	*[[Quatrain]]	+
-	*[[Quiproquo]]	+
-		+
-	==R==	+
-	*[[Reader-response criticism]]	+
-	*[[Realism (arts)|Realism]]	+
-	*[[Refrain]]	+
-	*[[Repetition]]	+
-	*[[Resolution]]	+
-	*[[Rhetoric]]	+
-	*[[Rhyme]]	+
-	*[[Meter (poetry)|Rhythm]]	+
-	*[[Roman a clef]]	+
-	*[[Romance novel]]	+
-	*[[Romanticism]]	+
-	*[[Russian formalism]]	+
-		+
-	==S==	+
-	*[[Satire]]	+
-	*[[Scanning]]	+
-	*[[Scansion]]	+
-	*''[[Scene a faire]]''	+
-	*[[Sea shanty]]	+
-	*[[Semiotics]]	+
-	*[[Semiotic literary criticism]]	+
-	*[[Setting (fiction)|Setting]]	+
-	*[[Sea shanty|Shanty]]	+
-	*[[Sestet]]	+
-	*[[Shakespearean sonnet]]	+
-	*[[Simile]]	+
-	*[[Sobriquet]]	+
-	*[[Soliloquy]]	+
-	*[[Sonnet]]	+
-	**[[Sonneteer]]	+
-	*[[Speaker]]	+
-	*[[Sprung rhythm]]	+
-	*[[Stanza]]	+
-	*[[Static character]]	+
-	*[[Stereotype]]	+
-	*[[Stream of consciousness writing|Stream of consciousness]]	+
-	*[[Structuralism]]	+
-	*[[Subplot]]	+
-	*[[Syllogism]]	+
-	*[[Symbol]]	+
-	*[[Synecdoche]]	+
-	*[[Synaesthesia]]	+
-	*[[Syntax]]	+
-		+
-	==T==	+
-	*[[Tableau]]	+
-	*[[Tail rhyme]]	+
-	*[[Tagelied]]	+
-	*[[Tale]]	+
-	*[[Tall Tale]]	+
-	*[[Telestich]]	+
-	*[[Tanka]]	+
-	*[[Tenor]]	+
-	*[[Tension]]	+
-	*[[Tercet]]	+
-	*''[[Terza rima]]''	+
-	*[[Tetrameter]]	+
-	*[[Tetrastich]]	+
-	*[[Textual criticism]]	+
-	*[[Structure|Texture]]	+
-	*[[Theater of Cruelty]]	+
-	*[[Theater of the Absurd]]	+
-	*[[Theme (literature)|Theme]]	+
-	*[[Thesis]]	+
-	*[[Thesis play]]	+
-	*[[Threnody]]	+
-	*[[Tirade]]	+
-	*[[Tone (literary)|Tone]]	+
-	*[[Tract (literature)|Tract]]	+
-	*[[Oxford Movement|Tractarian Movement]]	+
-	*[[Tragedy]]	+
-	*[[Tragedy of blood]]	+
-	*[[Tragic flaw]]	+
-	*[[Tragic Hero]]	+
-	*[[Tragic irony]]	+
-	*[[Tragicomedy]]	+
-	*[[Slice of life story|Tranche de vie]]	+
-	*[[Transcendentalism]]	+
-	*[[Transferred epithet]]	+
-	*[[Transition]]	+
-	*[[Translation]]	+
-	*[[Travesty]]	+
-	*Triad	+
-	*[[Tribe of Ben]]	+
-	*[[Tribrach]]	+
-	*[[Trimeter]]	+
-	*[[Triolet]]	+
-	*[[Triple rhyme]]	+
-	*[[Triple meter]]	+
-	*[[Triple meter|Triple rhythm]]	+
-	*[[Tercet|Triplet]]	+
-	*[[Tristich]]	+
-	*[[Tritagonist]]	+
-	*[[Trivium (education)|Trivium]]	+
-	*''[[Trobar clus]]''	+
-	*[[Trochee]]	+
-	*[[Trope (literature)]]	+
-	*[[Troubadour]]	+
-	*[[Trouvère]]	+
-	*[[Acatalectic|Truncated line]]	+
-	*[[Skeltonic verse|Tumbling verse]]	+
-	*[[Stock and type character|Type character]]	+
-		+
-	==U==	+
-	*''[[Ubi sunt]]''	+
-	*[[Underground culture]]	+
-	*[[Underground press]]	+
-	*[[Understatement]]	+
-	*[[Unities]]	+
-	*[[Classical unities|Unity]]	+
-	*[[Universality]]	+
-	*[[University Wits]]	+
-	*[[Unobtainium]]	+
-	*[[Utopia]]	+
-	*[[Utopian and dystopian fiction]]	+
-	*[[Unreliable narrator]]	+
-		+
-	==V==	+
-	*[[Variable syllable]]	+
-	*[[Variorum]]	+
-	*[[Menippean satire|Varronian satire]] (Menippean satire)	+
-	*''[[Vates]]''	+
-	*[[Vaudeville]]	+
-	*[[Vehicle]]	+
-	*[[Irony|Verbal irony]]	+
-	*[[Verisimilitude]]	+
-	*[[Verism]]	+
-	*''[[Vers de société]]''	+
-	*[[Verse (poetry)|Verse]]	+
-	*[[Verse paragraph]]	+
-	*''[[Free verse|Vers libre]]''	+
-	*[[Verso]]	+
-	*[[Victorianism]]	+
-	*[[Point of view (literature)|Viewpoint]]	+
-	*[[Vignette (literature)|Vignette]]	+
-	*[[Villain]]	+
-	*[[Villanelle]]	+
-	*[[Virelay]]	+
-	*[[Virgule]]	+
-	*[[Writer's voice|Voice]] (of the writer)	+
-	*[[Voice (phonetics)|Voice]] (in phonetics)	+
-	*[[Volta]]	+
-	*[[Vorticism]]	+
-	*[[Vulgate]]	+
-		+
-	==W==	+
-	*[[Wardour Street English]]	+
-	*[[Weak ending]]	+
-	*[[Weak foot]]	+
-	*[[Well-made play]]	+
-	*[[Wellerism]]	+
-	*[[Western fiction]]	+
-	*[[Wimmering]]	+
-	*[[Wit]]	+
-	*[[Word accent]]	+
-	*[[Wrenched accent]]	+
-	*[[Watermark]]	+
-		+
-		+
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