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Glossaries

Literary Glossary Index

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Welcome to the EDSITEment Literary Glossary.

Use the menu above to navigate the glossary, or use the alphabetical listing below.

Allegory

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Plot

Alliteration

Graphic Novel

Point-of-view

Allusion

Haibun

Realism

Ambiguity Haiku

Regionalism

Apostrophe

History

Repetition

Assonance

Imagery

Rhetoric

Autobiography Irony

Rhythm

Character

Kenning

Romanticism
Consonance

Legend

Satire
Decadent

Limerick

Setting

Dialect

Medieval

Simile

Drama Metaphor

Slave Narrative

Dramatic Monologue

Meter

Shakespeare

Ecocriticism

Modernism

Sonnet

Elegy Mythology

Stream-of-consciousness

Enjambment

Narrator

Symbol
Epic

Naturalism

Symbolism
Essay

Noh

Tanka (Japanese form)

Fable

Non-fiction

Time

Fairy Tale

Onomatopoeia Tragedy
Fantasy Oral History Voice

Fiction

Persona

Victorian

Folklore

Personification

Villanelle