Department of English

Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University


Literary Terms

 

allegory
allusion
assonance
ballad
  • Ballad (folk and literary ballad definitions from The Columbia Encyclopedia on Bartleby)

  • Ballad (description of the folk and literary ballad)

  • Ballad

character, characterization

Static Characters

Developing Characters

Flat Characters

Round Characters

conflict
connotation
denotation
escape literature
imagery
irony
metaphor
meter
metonymy
onomatopoeia
paradox
personification
plot
  • What is plot? (discussion of plot from a science fiction writer)

point of view
refrain
rhyme
  • Rhyme (short definitions and examples of different kinds of rhymes)

  • Rhyme (intro, simple rhyming, not-quite-rhymes, rather-more-than-rhymes, special kinds of rhyme, locations for rhyme)

scansion
setting
  • Setting (short explanation, what setting tells us)

  • Short Story Elements (brief descriptions of setting, plot, conflict, character, point of view, theme)

stanza
suspense
symbol, symbolism
synecdoche
synesthesia
theme
tone

 

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