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Literature

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Alba (poetry)
Aubade
Awdl
Ballade (forme fixe)
Ballata
Canso (song)
Cantiga de amigo
Cerdd dafod
Chanson de toile
Cobla esparsa
Cywydd
Dansa
Descort
Enuig
Formes fixes
Grand chant
Kyrielle
Madrigal (poetry)
Octave (poetry)
Partimen
Pastorela
Pastourelle
Petrarchan sonnet
Reverdie
Rondeau (forme fixe)
Rondel (poem)
Rondelet
Sestina
Sicilian octave
Tagelied
Tenso
Tornada (Occitan literary term)
Traethodl
Triolet
Trobar clus
Trobar leu
Trobar ric
Viadera
Virelai
Alliterative verse
Bjarkarímur
Háttalykill inn forni
Heimdalargaldr
Heiti
Runestones of Högby
Kenning
List of kennings
Málaháttr
Odendisa Runestone
Ólafs ríma Haraldssonar
Rök Runestone
Skíðaríma
Sólarljóð
Thula (poetic genre)
Chinese Sanqu poetry
Ci (poetry)
Classical Chinese poetry forms
Couplet (Chinese poetry)
Fu (poetry)
Gushi (poetry)
History of fu poetry
Jueju
Lottery poetry
Lüshi (poetry)
Modern Chinese poetry
Pailü
Qijue
Qu (poetry)
Regulated verse
Shi (poetry)
Shigin
Spring Lament
Yuefu
Glossary of literary terms
Outline of poetry
Anaphora (rhetoric)
Anthology
Anthropotechnic
Bhashya
Characterization
Clandestine literature
Debut novel
Détournement
Ellipsis (narrative device)
Four Seas
Idée fixe (psychology)
Liebestod
Nivola
Glossary of poetry terms
Rash promise
Reader model
Redux (literary term)
Shadorma
Skaz
Verb displacement
The Virgilian Progression
Abstract detail
Alien (literary concept)
Alter ego
Anagnorisis
Analogue (literature)
Archetype
Ars Poetica (Horace)
Ashta Nayika
Assemblage (composition)
Catharsis
Conceit
Criticism
Cut-up technique
Description
Deus ex machina
Dialogic
Didacticism
Différance
Dionysian imitatio
Dystopia
Ethos
Excursus
Ezra Pound's Three Kinds of Poetry
Flashback (narrative)
Formalism (philosophy)
Gothic double
Great Conversation
Grotesque body
Hamartia
Homage
Horror and terror
Horror Victorianorum
Hypostasis (literature)
Imitation (art)
The Imp of the Perverse
In medias res
Instress
Interdiscourse
Intertextuality
Invagination
Kairosis
Kenosis
Lexis (Aristotle)
Metatheatre
Mimesis
Mind monkey
Mode (literature)
Mood (literature)
Motif (narrative)
Mythos (Aristotle)
Narrative mode
Object of the mind
Organic form
Organic unity
Myth of origins
Paradise of Fools
Paradox (literature)
Peripeteia
Redaction
Referential density
Resistance (philosophy)
Rhizome (philosophy)
Round-robin story
Sense of wonder
Spoetry
Spoudaiogeloion
Storyline
Subplot
Subtext
Superfluous man
Theme (narrative)
Tone (literature)
Transtextuality
Trope (literature)
Type scene
Anthropomorphism
Cliché
Diction
Figurative analogy
Grammatical modifier
Metaphor
Objectification
Purple prose
Relevance
Simile
Verisimilitude (narrative)
Voice (grammar)
Zooming (writing skill)
Plot (narrative)
A-Plot
Babies switched at birth
Backstory
Cliffhanger
Climax (narrative)
Dangler (plot device)
Deathtrap (plot device)
Dramatic structure
Dramatistic pentad
Eavesdropping
Epiphany (feeling)
Fabel
Flashforward
Formula fiction
Frame story
Happy ending
Inciting incident
MacGuffin
Types of fiction with multiple endings
Narrative hook
Plot device
Plot generator
Plot hole
Plot point
Plot twist
Poetics (Aristotle)
Predestination paradox
Quest
Random plot generator
Red herring
Reveal (narrative)
Reverse chronology
Roman à tiroirs
Scene (drama)
Screenwriting
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Sexual tension
Story arc
Story within a story
Suspension of disbelief
Three-act structure
Vignette (literature)
Leitmotif
Amalgamation (fiction)
Conflict between good and evil
Family life in literature
Keynote
Locus amoenus
Lovable rogue
Marriage plot
Mental illness in fiction
Senex amans
True meaning of Christmas
Docufiction
Ethnofiction
Fiction
Outline of fiction
Short prose
Action (literature)
Alternative universe (fan fiction)
Anachronism
Authoritarian literature
Balanced sentence
Bible fiction
Blog fiction
Boys and Girls (short story)
Cannibalization of fiction
Captivity narrative
Character (arts)
Character flaw
Character sketch
Children's literature
Children's literature criticism
Fictional crossover
Detective dénouement
Dialogue
Dialogue in writing
Dream world (plot device)
Epic poetry
Epilogue
Escapist fiction
Fairy tale
Fantasy world
Female epic
Fiction writing
Fictional universe
Film à clef
First-person narrative
Flash fiction
Folklore
Foreshadowing
Genre
Genre fiction
Grammar
Imagery
Irony
List of fiction set in Geneva
Lists of books
Literary technique
Literature
Fictional location
Maternal mortality in fiction
Monologue
Narrative
Narrative structure
Narrative thread
New-adult fiction
Nomen à clef
Novel
Origin story
Parable
Paradox of fiction
Parallel universe (fiction)
Paranoid fiction
Petrifaction in mythology and fiction
Pious fiction
Prologue
Saga novel
Screenplay
Second-person narrative
Setting (narrative)
Shared universe
Show, don't tell
Social novel
Stock character
Stream of unconsciousness (narrative mode)
Style (fiction)
The Moons of Jupiter (short story)
The Road from Elephant Pass (novel)
Tragicomedy
Worldbuilding
Writer's voice
Writing style
Point of view shot
Standpoint theory
Third-person limited narrative
Third-person omniscient narrative
Unreliable narrator
Ziran
Airwave novel
Chopsocky
Collaborative fiction
Jest book
List of science fiction universes
Long poem
Mockumentary
Novella
Novelogue
Science fiction
Short story
Short story cycle
Three-volume novel
Annotated novel
Antinovel
Chain novel
Fix-up
Interactive novel
Microblogging novel
Mosaic novel
Yellow-back
Thematic transformation
Electronic literature
List of literary genres
Literary genre
Aattakatha
Absurdist fiction
Addventure
Adventure fiction
Airport novel
Anonymous blogging
Anti-nihilistic novel
Auto (play)
Autobiographical novel
Bakhar
Belles-lettres
Biji (Chinese literature)
Bildungsroman
Biographical novel
Bizarro fiction
Blog
Boomer lit
Campus novel
Carnivalesque
Cautionary tale
Champu
Chick lit
Chivalric romance
City mysteries
Class S (genre)
Closet drama
Closet screenplay
Collage novel
Comedy thriller
Comic novel
Coming-of-age story
Conduct book
Consolatio
Consuetudinary (book)
Conversation poem
Courtesy book
Creative nonfiction
Crimean legends
Dark romanticism
Detective fiction
Dime novel
Disaster books
Docudrama
Domestic tragedy
Elegiac comedy
Elements of American Gothic
Emblem book
Entremés
Epistolary novel
Ergodic literature
Erotic literature
Eulogy
Experimental literature
Fantastic
Fantastic drama
Fantastique
Fantasy
Fantasy literature
Fashionable novel
Parallel novel
Financial thriller
Free writing
Gaucho literature
Gawęda
Gods and demons fiction
Gong'an fiction
Gothic Blue Books
Gothic fiction
Grimoire
Grotesque
Grotesquerie
Grunge Lit
Guide book
Histoires tragiques
Historical fiction
Historical romance
Historical mystery
Hollywood novel
Horror fiction
Imaginary voyage
Jacobin novel
Jiangshi fiction
Juvenilia
Kmart realism
Lab lit
Legend
Letter game
Libertine novel
List of genres
List of werewolf fiction
Lovecraftian horror
Macabre
Magic realism
Mashup (book)
August Gottlieb Meißner
Memoir
Mémoire
Men's adventure
Menippean satire
Metahistorical romance
Mirrors for princes
Misery lit
Literary modernism
Monster literature
Mundane science fiction
Mystery fiction
Mythopoeia
National Non-Fiction Day
Nepal Bhasa literature
New Italian Epic
New Weird
Newgate novel
Noir fiction
Non-fiction
Non-fiction novel
Literary nonsense
Notebook (style)
Nouveau roman
Novel of manners
Oracular literature
Outdoor literature
Paradoxography
Parnassianism
Pastiche
Pastoral
Patericon
Penny dreadful
Performative writing
Philosophical fiction
Picaresque novel
Plantation tradition
Poetic journal
Poetry
Political fiction
Political thriller
Politics in fiction
Popular history
Popular science
Postmodern literature
Pourquoi story
Pragatisheela
Prehistoric fiction
Procedural (genre)
Professional writing
Prose
Arcanepunk
Bangsian fantasy
Comic fantasy
Contemporary fantasy
Dark fantasy
Dying Earth (subgenre)
Sacred history
Adventure science fiction
Alien invasion
Alternate history
Anthropological science fiction
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Biopunk
Black science fiction
Cli fi
Comic science fiction
Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk derivatives
Edisonade
Feghoot
Feminist science fiction
Gothic science fiction
Hard science fiction
Libertarian science fiction
Military science fiction
New Wave science fiction
Paranormal romance
Post-Futurism
Recursive science fiction
Science fantasy
Outline of science fiction
Science fiction Western
Scientific romance
Skiffy
Social science fiction
Soft science fiction
Space Frontier
Space Goth
Space Western
Speculative poetry
Spy-fi
Steampunk
Superhero fiction
Supernatural drama
Tech noir
Transrealism (literature)
Weird West
Afterword
Allusion
Anecdote
Aside
Dual narrative
Literary dunce
Epigraph (literature)
Epistle
État second
Extant literature
Foreword
Moral
Nonsense word
Pan-national epic
Perverse incentive
Proverb
Proverbial phrase
Satire
Serial (literature)
Soliloquy
Umbrella title
Fable
Mythology
Play (theatre)
Slave narrative
Tall tale
Biography
Autobiography
List of narrative forms
Exposition (narrative)
Chekhov's gun
Eucatastrophe
Poetic justice
Quibble (plot device)
Ticking time bomb scenario
Author surrogate
Fourth wall
Defamiliarization
Stream of consciousness (narrative mode)
Allegory
Alliteration
Amplification (rhetoric)
Anagram
Asyndeton
Bathos
Caesura
Distancing effect
Euphuism
Hyperbole
Image
Metonymy
Synecdoche
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Parody
Pathos
Polysyndeton
Mental image
Understatement
Word play
Pun
Symbol
Echo
Pathetic fallacy
Roman à clef
Antagonist
Antihero
Archenemy
False protagonist
Focal character
Foil (literature)
Protagonist
Tritagonist
Character arc
Conflict (narrative)
Kishōtenketsu
Fictional city
Fictional country
Utopia
Figure of speech
Stylistic device
Epic (genre)
Crime fiction
Romance novel
Saga
Speculative fiction
Thriller (genre)
Western fiction
Past tense
Present tense
Future tense
Audience
Literary theory
Rhetoric
Contrast (linguistics)
Contrast (literary)
Idiom
Joke
Essay