3LORe List of Terms


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A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z


A

Abstract
Accent
Active Voice
Actor
Adjective

Adjunct
Adverb

Affective Fallacy
Agent
Allegory
Alliteration
Allusion
Ambiguity

Antagonist
Anticlimax
Antithesis

Antonym
Apologue
Apostrophe
Author
Autobiography

 

B

Ballad
Biography
Blank Verse

Burlesque

C

Catastrophe
Catharsis
Character

Characterisation
Climax
Comedy

Complement
Conceit
Concrete
Connotation
Consonance
Couplet

Criticism

 

D

Deduction
Denotation
Diction
Doppelganger

Double Entendre
Drama
Dramatic Monologue
Dystopia

 

E

Elegy
Elizabethan
Enjambed

Epic
Epilogue
Euphemism
Exposition

 

F

Fable
Farce
Fiction

Figurative Language
Finite
First-person Narrator
Flashback
Foil

Foreshadow
Free Verse
Functional Linguistics

G

Genre
Goal
Gothic Novel

 

H

Haiku
Hero
Hyperbole

 

I

Iamb(ic)
Imagery
Induction

Irony

 

J

Jacobean

 

K


Kind

 

L

Limerick
Literal Language
Literary Criticism

Literary Kind
Lyric


M

Metaphor
Metre
Metonymy

Mock Epic
Modern
MOOD
Motif

 

N

Narrative
Narrator
Novel

Noun

 

O

Occasional Poem
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron

 

 

 

 

P

Parable
Parallel Structure
Parody
Passive Voice
Pastoral
Pathetic Fallacy

Pathos
Persona
Personification

Petrarchan Conceit
Picaresque Novel

Plot
Poem

Point of View
Predicate
Predicator

Projection
Prologue
Pronoun
Prose
Protagonist

Pun

 

Q

Quatrain

 

R

Rheme
Rhetorical Question
Rhyme

Rhyme Scheme
Romantic

 

S

Sarcasm
Satire
Scan
Simile
Soliloquy
Sonnet
Speaker
Stanza
Stream of Consciousness
Stress
Subject
Symbol
Sympathetic Fallacy

Synecdoche
Synonym

 

T

THEME
Theme
Third-person Narrator
Tone
Tragedy
Tragicomedy

TRANSITIVITY
Transitivity

 

U

Utopia

 

V

Verb
Verse
Victorian
Voice



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