Act and Scene 1
Aestheticism,or the Aesthetic Movement 1
Affective Fallacy 1
Alexandrine 2
Allegory 2
Alliteration 2
Allusion 3
Ambiguity 4
American Puritanism 4
American Romanticism 5
American Transcendentalism 6
American realism 7
American Naturalism 7
Analogy 8
Antagonist 9
Antihero 9
Antithesis 9
Aphorism 10
Apostrophe 10
Aside 10
Atmosphere 10
Author and authorship 11
Authorship 11
Autobiography 11
Ballad 12
Ballad stanza 12
A broadside ballad 13
Baroque 13
Beat Writers 13
Biography 14
Black Arts Movement 14
Blank Verse 14
Bohemianism 15
Caesura 15
Canto 15
Caricature 15
Carpe Diem Tradition 16
Celtic Revival 16
Character 16
Characterization 17
Chivalric Romance 17
Chorus 18
Chronicle Plays 19
Chronicles 19
Classicism 19
Climax 20
Comedy 20
Comedy of humors 20
Comic Relief 21
Conceit 21
Concrete and abstract 21
Concrete Poetry 23
Confessional poetry 24
Confidant 24
Conflict 25
Connotation 25
Consonance 25
Couplet 25
Conventions 26
Courtly Love 27
Criticism 28
Cultural studies 31
Decadence 31
Deconstruction 32
Decorum 32
Deism 33
Dues ex Machina 33
Dialogic Criticism 34
Didactic literature 34
Discourse Analysis 35
Denotation 35
Denouement 35
Diction 36
Dissonance 36
Drama 36
Dramatic Monologue 36
Dream Vision 36
Edition 37
Elegy 37
Emblematic Image 37
Enlightenment 37
Epic 38
Epic Similes 40
Epigram 41
Epigraph 41
Epilogue 41
Epiphany 41
Epitaph 41
Epithet 42
Essay 42
Exemplum 42
Exposition 42
Expressionism 43
Fable 43
Fabliau 43
Fancy and Imagination 44
Farce 45
Fiction and Truth 45
Figurative Language 47
Figure of Speech 50
Flashback 50
Foil 50
Folklore 50
Folk Drama 51
Folk Songs 51
Folktale 51
Foreshadowing 51
Form and Structure 51
Formalism 52
Format of a Book 53
Free verse 54
Genres 57
Golden Age 58
Gothic Novel 58
The Gothic novel 58
Graveyard Poets 59
Great Chain of Being 60
Haiku 61
Harlem Renaissance 62
Heroic Couplet 62
Heroic drama 64
Humanism 64
Hymn 65
Hyperbole and Understatement 66
Iambic pentameter 67
Imagery 68
Imitation 68
Incremental Repetition 69
Influence and the Anxiety of Influence 69
In Medias Res 70
Intentional fallacy 70
Interpretation and Hermeneutics 71
Inversion 71
Invocation 72
Irony 72
Ivory tower 73
Kenning 73
Lai 73
Light Verse 73
Linguistics in Literary Criticism 74
Local Color 80
Local Colorism or Regionalism 80
Lost generation 81
Lyric 81
Marxist Criticism 82
Masque 83
Melodrama 84
Metaphor 84
Metaphysical poetry 85
Meter 85
Metonymy 94
Miracle Play 94
Mock Epic 94
Modernism and Postmodernism 94
Morality play 95
Motif 95
Motivation 95
Myth 95
Narration 96
Narrative and Narratology 97
Narratology 97
Narrative Capability 97
Narrative poem 98
Narrator 98
Neoclassicism 98
New Criticism 98
New historicism 99
Novel 100
Objective and Subjective 101
Occasional Poems 101
Octave 102
Ode 102
Onomatopoeia 103
Oral Formulaic Poetry 103
Ottava rime 104
Oxymoron 104
Palinode 104
Pantomime and Dumb Show 104
Paradox 105
Parallelism 105
Parody 106
Pastoral 106
Pathetic Fallacy 107
Pathos 108
Period of American Literature 108
Period of English literature 113
Persona,Tone,and Voice 122
Personification 125
Platonic Love 125
Plot 127
Poetic Diction 127
Poetic Justice 128
Poetic License 128
Point of View 128
Postcolonial Studies 129
Poststructuralism 129
Primitivism and Progress 130
Problem Play 130
Prose 131
Prosody 132
Protagonist 132
Psalm 132
Pun 132
Purple Patch 132
Queer Theory 133
Quatrain 134
Reader-Response Criticism 134
Realism 135
Reception-Theory 135
Refrain 136
Renaissance 136
Rhetoric 139
Rhetorical Criticism 139
Rhetorical Figures 140
Rhyme 143
Rhythm 144
Romance 145
Romanticism 145
Satire 145
Scansion 147
Science Fiction and Fantasy 148
Semiotics 149
Sensibility 151
Sentimentalism 152
Sestet 153
Setting 153
Seven Deadly Sins 153
Short Story 154
Simile 154
Socialist Realism 155
Sociology of Literature 155
Soliloquy 156
Song 156
Sonnet 156
Spenserian Stanza 157
Sprung Rhythm 157
Stanza 158
Stock Characters 162
Stock Response 162
Stock Situations 162
Stereotype 162
Stream of consciousness 163
Structuralist Criticism 163
Style 164
Stylistics 166
Suspense 167
Symbol 168
Symbolism 168
Synecdoche 168
Terza rima 168
Theme 168
Tone 169
Tragedy 169
Tragicomedy 169
Transcendentalism in America 169
Utopias and Dystopias 170
Victorian and Victorianism 171
Villanelle 171
Wit 171
Index of the author 173