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.
50 termsOpen
Literature07Character & Image
Hero, character, lyric subject, archetype.
30 termsOpen
Literature08Theory & Criticism
Literary theory, criticism and book culture.
68 termsOpen
Genres & Forms
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Chronicle
The chronicle (litopys) is a historical-narrative genre of early writing — a year-by-year exposition of historical events in which the docu…
Diary
The diary is a documentary-artistic genre, a form of keeping dated first-person records of events, thoughts, and experiences made directly…
Memoir
The memoir (recollections) is a documentary-artistic genre in which the author narrates real events of the past that he witnessed or took p…
Sketch
The narys (sketch) is an artistic-publicistic genre on the border of literature and journalism that gives a prompt, documentarily reliable…
