Literary Terms

Fiction

narrator narrative story plot setting ellipsis

flashback flashforward character point of view parable allegory

epiphany catharsis climax free indirect discourse Iceberg Principle

General

dramatic irony situational irony verbal irony negative capability ethical significance representation ambiguity

juxtaposition diction alliteration style image symbol metaphor

motif hyperbole allusion historical sense impersonal theory of poetry objective correlative "make it new"

Literary Movements

Romanticism Realism Impressionism

Naturalism Modernism

Post-Modernism Minimalism