🗝️Allegory

A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning.

🔤Alliteration

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent words.

🔗Allusion

An indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea.

💡Anagnorisis

The moment in a story when a character makes a critical discovery.

🔁Anaphora (English Literature)

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.

🦹Antagonist

A character who opposes the protagonist.

⚖️Antithesis (English Literature)

A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.

🏺Archaism

A thing that is very old or old-fashioned.

🤫Aside

A remark by a character in a play intended to be heard by the audience but not other characters.

🅰️Assonance

The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words.

✂️Asyndeton

The omission of conjunctions between parts of a sentence.

📖Autobiography (English Literature)

An account of a person's life written by that person.

🎵Ballad

A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.

🌱Bildungsroman

A novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education.

📘Biography (English Literature)

An account of someone's life written by someone else.

📜Blank Verse

Unrhymed verse, especially iambic pentameter.

⏸️Caesura

A pause near the middle of a line of verse.

😭Catharsis

The release of emotions through art or literature.

🔄Chiasmus

A rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures.

♻️Cliché

A phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought.

⛰️Climax

The most intense, exciting, or important point of a story.

💬Colloquialism (English Literature)

A word or phrase used in informal conversation.

⚔️Conflict

A struggle between opposing forces in a story.

💭Connotation

An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal meaning.

🔡Consonance

The repetition of consonant sounds in nearby words.

2️⃣Couplet

Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme.

📖Denotation

The literal or primary meaning of a word.

🎬Denouement

The final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together.

🗺️Dialect (English Literature)

A particular form of a language specific to a region or social group.

💬Dialogue (English Literature)

Conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.