Literary Terms

(Midterm)

Be sure to use a literary terms dictionary.  Many are on-line and free.

Poetic Forms:

  • Ballad

  • Blank verse

  • Couplet

  • Elegy

  • Epic

  • Epigram

  • Epitaph

  • Haiku

  • Idyll or Idyl

  • Lyric

  • Narrative Poem

  • Pastoral

  • Sonnet

  • Verse

 

Poetic Terms:

  • Allegory

  • Allusion

  • Analogy

  • Archetype

  • Conceit

  • Connotation/denotation

  • Couplet

  • Diction

  • Enjambment

  • Epigraph

  • Hyperbole

  • Idiom

  • Imagery

  • Irony

  • Jargon

  • Metaphor

  • Paradox

  • Persona

  • Personification

  • Satire

  • Simile

  • Symbol

  • Syntax

  • Trope

 

Graphic Novel:

  • Layout

  • panel

  • frame

  • gutter

  • bleed

  • foreground

  • midground

  • background

  • graphic novel

  • graphic weight

  • Figures

  • faces

  • hands/feet

  • text

  • captions

  • speech balloons

  • special-effects lettering

See GraphicNovels/1102-terms.pdf