Glossary
Glossary
A glossary of literary terms — from metaphor to free verse.
Literature01Versification
Rhythm, metre, rhyme and the stanza.
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Literature02Tropes & Figures
Metaphor, metonymy and rhetorical figures.
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Literature03Stylistics
Language, register and stylistic devices.
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Literature04Genres & Forms
Novel, novella, sonnet — genres and folk forms.
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Literature05Movements
Baroque, romanticism, modernism, avant-garde.
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Literature06Composition
Plot, fabula, conflict and structure.
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Literature07Character & Image
Hero, character, lyric subject, archetype.
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Literature08Theory & Criticism
Literary theory, criticism and book culture.
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Composition
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Dialogue
Dialogue is a conversation of two or more characters, an exchange of remarks, which is the principal means of revealing the action, the cha…
Focalization
Focalization is a narratological concept introduced by the French theorist Gérard Genette to designate through whose eyes, through whose co…
Free Indirect Discourse
Free indirect discourse is a special way of conveying a character's speech or thoughts that combines features of direct and indirect speech…
Interior Monologue
The interior monologue is a device of psychological depiction that conveys the unspoken thoughts, feelings, and experiences of a character…
Monologue
The monologue is an extended utterance of a single character, addressed to himself, to other characters, to the spectator, or to the reader…
Narrative Distance
Narrative distance is a category of narratology designating the degree of remoteness or nearness of the narrator (and, with him, the reader…
Narrator
The narrator is the subject of the exposition of events in an epic work — the one who tells the story; it is an artistic category that must…
Point of View
Point of view is the position from which the narration is conducted and from which the depicted events, characters, and world of the work a…
Polylogue
The polylogue is a form of speech in a literary work that is a conversation of three or more participants — the simultaneous exchange of re…
Skaz
Skaz is a special form of narration that imitates the oral, spontaneous speech of a narrator from among the common people, reproducing his…
Stage Direction
The stage direction (remarka) is an authorial indication in the text of a dramatic work that does not enter into the speech of the characte…
Stream of Consciousness
Stream of consciousness is a Modernist device of artistic depiction that reproduces the continuous, spontaneous movement of thoughts, impre…
