aestheticism
alexandrine
allegory
alliteration
American Renaissance
anapest
anxiety of influence
archaism
archetype
Aristotle�s six elements of tragedy
Aristotle�s three Unities
art ballad
aubade
Augustan Age
Bildungsroman
blank verse
Bowdlerize
caesura
canon
carpe diem
catharsis
Cavalier Poets
chiasmus
chronological primitivism
closet drama
common measure (or meter)
contemptus mundi
couplet
cultural primitivism
dactyl
decorum
Deism
didactic
dramatic irony
dramatic monologue
eclogue
elegy
emblem
enjambment
Enlightenment
epic
epigram
epiphany
epistolary novel
epithalamion
epithet
eulogy
eye-rhyme
figures of speech (metaphor, simile, personification)
framing narrative
Georgian Period
Georgian Poets
Georgic
gothic novel
Great Chain of Being
Greater Romantic Lyric
hermeneutics
heroic couplet
hexameter
Horatian ode
hyperbole
iambic pentameter
idyll
imagery
informal essay
interior monologue
Interregnum
intertextuality
Irish Literary Renaissance
irony (dramatic irony)
irregular ode
Italian/Petrarchan sonnet
Literature (Theatre) of the Absurd
Literature of Sensibility
locodescriptive verse
lyric
lyric persona
memento mori
metaphor
metaphysical conceit
mimesis
mock epic
Modernism (post-Modernism)
monody
Morality Play
motif
Mystery Play
negative capability
Neoclassicism
Neoplatonism
objective correlative
octave / sestet
onomatopoeia
oxymoron
pantheism
pastoral elegy
pathetic fallacy
periphrasis
picaresque novel
Pindaric ode
poetic diction
quantitative meter
quatrain
Regency Period
Restoration
satire
Shakespearean/English sonnet
simile
soliloquy
spondee
sprezzatura
sprung rhythm
stream of consciousness
sublime
symbol
Symbolist Movement
synecdoche
synesthesia
tetrameter
topos (for�t sauvage/locus am�nus)
tragic flaw
Transcendentalism
trochee
ubi sunt
utopia
vernacular
verse paragraph
wit