English Literature Key Terms

ALLEGORY

ALLITERATION

ALLUSION

ANTITHESIS

ASIDE

ASSONANCE

BLANK VERSE

CAESURA

CHORUS

CONTEXT

COUPLET

DENOUEMENT

DUMB-SHOW

EPIPHANY

EXPOSITION

FLANEUR/EUSE

FREE INDIRECT SPEECH

FREE VERSE

GENRE

HYBRID

HYPERBOLE

IMAGERY

INTERTEXTUALITY

IRONY

LEITMOTIF

LEXICON

LITERARY CANON

METAPHOR

METONYM

METRE

NOVELLA

PARODY

PASTICHE

PASTORAL

PERSONA

PUN

PERSONIFICATION

PLOT

REGISTER

RHETORIC

RHYME

ROMANCE

SATIRE

SIMILE

SOLILOQUY

SONNET

SYNTAX