🔁Metafiction

Fiction that self-consciously addresses the devices of fiction.

🌉Metaphor (English Literature)

A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as".

📏Meter (English Literature)

The rhythmic structure of a poem.

🏛️Metonymy

The substitution of the name of an attribute for that of the thing meant.

🏙️Modernism

A literary movement that broke with traditional forms of writing.

🎭Monologue

A long speech by one actor in a play or movie.

🎭Monologue (English Literature)

A long speech by one actor in a play or movie.

🌙Mood (English Literature)

A temporary state of mind or feeling evoked by a literary work.

🔁Motif (English Literature)

A recurring image, idea, or symbol in a literary work.

🏛️Myth (English Literature)

A traditional story explaining natural or social phenomena.

📖Narrative Poetry

Poetry that tells a story.

🔬Naturalism

A literary movement that applies scientific principles to the depiction of human beings.

⚔️Nemesis

A long-standing rival; an archenemy.

🆕Neologism

A newly coined word or expression.

📰Nonfiction

Prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people.

📕Novel

A fictitious prose narrative of book length.

📘Novella

A short novel or long short story.

8️⃣Octave (English Literature)

A stanza of eight lines.

🎶Ode

A lyric poem addressed to a particular subject.

🔊Onomatopoeia

A word that imitates the sound it represents.

🤝Oxymoron

A figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear in conjunction.

📖Parable (English Literature)

A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson.

🌀Paradox

A statement that contradicts itself but may be true.

🟰Parallelism

The use of successive verbal constructions that correspond in grammatical structure.

🎭Parody

An imitation of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.

❤️Pathos

An appeal to emotion.

🔄Peripeteia

A sudden reversal of fortune in a story.

🧑Personification

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.

🃏Picaresque

Relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with a roguish hero.

📖Plot

The sequence of events in a story.