Literary Terms

Poetry

speaker persona free verse meter

caesura enjambment rhyme

alliteration objective correlative impersonal theory of poetry

Fiction

narrator narrative story plot setting ellipsis

flashback flashforward character point of view free indirect discourse

parable allegory epiphany catharsis climax

General

dramatic irony situational irony verbal irony ethical significance negative capability representation

ambiguity juxtaposition style diction image symbol

metaphor motif hyperbole allusion historical sense "make it new"

Literary Movements

Enlightenment Romanticism Realism

Impressionism Naturalism Modernism

Post-Modernism Minimalism