Novlr Glossary

Abbreviation Abstract Absurdism Acatalectic Accentual-verse Acknowledgments Acronym Acrostic Act Adaptation Adjective Advance Adverb Aestheticism Agon Alexandrine Allegoresis Allegory Alliteration Allusion Ambiguity Amphibrach Anachronism Anadiplosis Anagram Anapest Anaphora Anastrophe Antagonist Antecedent Anthropomorphism Anticlimax Antihero Antimetabole Antinovel Antistrophe Antithesis Antonomasia Antonym Aphorism Aposiopesis Apostrophe Archaism Archetype Arsis Art-for-arts-sake Aside Aspect Assonance Asyndeton Atmosphere Audience Autobiography Autotelic Avant-garde Backstory Ballad Ballad-stanza Baroque Bathos Beat-generation Bildungsroman Biography Black-comedy Blank-verse Bloomsbury-group Blurb Bombast Book-jacket Brechtian Burlesque Burletta Byline Cacophony Cadence Caesura Canon Captivity-narrative Caricature Catalectic Catastrophe Catharsis Chapbook Characterization Chiasmus Chivalric-romance Chorus Chronology Classicism Clause Clerihew Cliché Climactic-structure Climax Closed-form Closure Cognate Collocation Colloquialism Colonialism Comedy Comedy-of-manners Commedia-dellarte Common-measure Complement Conceit Conflict Conjunction Connotation Consonance Content Context Convention Copyediting Copyright Cosmic-irony Counterpoint Couplet Creative-nonfiction Creole Crisis Criticism Critique Cultural-materialism Dactyl Dadaism Dark-romanticism Deconstruction Defamiliarization Deism Denotation Denouement Deus-ex-machina Diacope Dialect Dialectic Dialogue Diamante Diaspora Diction Didactic Digression Dimeter Dionysian Direct-object Dirge Dissonance Distributor Doppelgänger Double-entendre Double-plot Dramatic-irony Dramatic-monologue Dramatic-poetry Dramatic-structure Dream-vision Dynamic-character Dénouement Eclogue Editing Ekphrasis Elegiac Elegy Elision Elizabethan-era Ellipsis Empathy Empiricism Encomium End-stopped-line Enjambment Enlightenment Environmentalism Envoi Epanalepsis Epic Epideictic Epigram Epigraph Epilogue Epiphany Episodic-structure Epistolary Epistrophe Epithalamium Epithet Eponym Erasure-poetry Eristic Escapism Eschatology Essay Ethnocentrism Ethos Etymology Euhemerism Euphemism Euphony Exemplum Existential-crisis Existentialism Expletive Exposition Expressionism Fable Fabliau Faction Fairy-tale Falling-action Farce Feminine-rhyme Feminist-criticism Fiction Figurative-language Figure-of-speech First-person-narrative Flashback Focalization Foil Foot Foreshadowing Foreword Formalism Formalist Found-poem Found-poetry Fragment Frame-story Framing-device Free-indirect-discourse Free-verse Freytags-pyramid Futurism Genre Genre-fiction Georgic Ghost-story Gnomic-poetry Golden-age Gothic Gothic-novel Grotesque Hagiography Haiku Hamartia Harlem-renaissance Harmartia Hauteur Heroic-couplet Heros-journey Heteroglossia High-comedy Historical-fiction Homeric-simile Homograph Homonym Homophone Horatian-satire Hubris Humanism Hyperbole Hypermetric Hypotaxis Iamb Iambic-pentameter Iconography Idiom Idyll Imagery Imagism Impressionism Imprint In-medias-res Inchoate Incunabulum Indirect-object Industrial-novel Inference Interior-monologue Interjection Intertextuality Inversion Invocation Irony Isbn Jargon Juxtaposition Kenning Lampoon Lexicon Limerick Linguistics Literary-agent Litotes Loanword Logos Lyric Magical-realism Malapropism Manuscript Masculine-rhyme Memoir Metaphor Metaphysical-poetry Meter Metonymy Metre Mimesis Modifier Monologue Montage Mood Morpheme Motif Motivation Myth Narration Narrative-voice Narratology Naturalism Neoclassicism Neologism Nihilism Noun Novella Object Objective-correlative Octave Ode Omniscient-narrator Onomatopoeia Open-form Oxymoron Pacing Pagination Palindrome Pantoum Parable Paradox Paralipsis Parallelism Paraphrase Parataxis Parody Pastiche Pastoral Pathetic-fallacy Pathos Peripeteia Persona Personification Philology Phoneme Phrase Picaresque Pidgin Plagiarism Plot Poetic-diction Poetic-justice Poetic-license Point-of-view Polyptoton Polysemy Polysyndeton Portmanteau Postmodernism Pragmatics Predicate Preface Preposition Print-run Prologue Pronoun Proofreading Prose Prose-poetry Prosody Protagonist Proto-language Pun Quatrain Query-letter Realism Refrain Register Reification Relativism Repartee Repetition Rhetoric Rhetorical-question Rhyme-royal Rhyme-scheme Rising-action Romantic-irony Romanticism Round-character Royalties Run-on Satire Scansion Scene Self-publishing Semantics Sentence Sestet Sestina Setting Sibilance Signified Signifier Simile Slang Slant-rhyme Socialist-realism Soliloquy Sonnet Spondee Sprung-rhythm Stanza Static-character Stereotype Stream-of-consciousness Stress Structuralism Style Subject Subplot Subtext Superimposition Surrealism Suspense Syllable Symbol Symbolism Synaesthesia Synecdoche Synonym Synopsis Syntax Tautology Tense Terza-rima Tetrameter Textual-criticism Theme Thesis Tone Tragedy Tragic-flaw Tragicomedy Transcendentalism Trochaic Trope Typesetting Utopianism Vanity-press Verb Verbal-irony Verisimilitude Vernacular Verse Villanelle Voice Zeugma