Articles related to literature include:
A
Accent
- Accentual verse
- Accentual-syllabic verse
- Aesthetic movement
- Allegory
- Alliteration
- Allusion
- Ambiguity
- Anecdote
- Antagonist
- Apostrophe
- Assonance
- Author's purpose
- Autobiography
B
Ballad
- Biography
- Blank verse
- Breve
- Broadside
- Burlesque
C
Character
- Characterization
- Chronological order
- Climax
- Comedy
- Conceit
- Concrete poem
- Conflict
- Connotation
- Context
- Contrast
- Consonance -Cordel literature
- Couplet
D
Dead metaphor
- Detail
- Denouement
- Description
- Dialect
- Dialogue
- Diary
- Didactic literature
- Diphthong
- Doggerel
- Drama
- Dramatic monologue
- Dramatic poetry
E
Elegy
- Elision
Electronic literature- Emblematic poem
- English studies
- Epic
- Epigram
- Epitaph
- Epithalamium
- Essay
- Eulogy
- Exaggeration
- Excerpt
- Existentialism
- Explorative strategies
- Exposition
- Expressionism
- Extended metaphor
- Eye rhyme
F
Fable
- Fantasy
- Farce
- Feminine ending
- Fiction
- Flash prose
- Figurative language
- Flashback
- Folk tale
- Foot
- Foreshadowing
- Frame story
- Free verse
G
Genre
H
Haiku
- Half rhyme
- Hero/heroine
- Hubris
- Humour
- Hyperbole
I
Ictus
- Idiom
- Idyll
- Imagist
- Implicit metaphor
- Internal rhyme
- Inciting moment
- Invocation
- Irony
L
Legend
- Light verse
- Limerick
- Literary criticism
- Literature
- Litotes
- Lyric
M
Macaronic verse
- Main character
- Masculine ending
- Masculine rhyme
- Memoir
- Merism
- Metamorphosis
- Metaphor
- Metaphysical poet
- Meter
- Metonymy
- Minor character
- Mock heroic
- Moral
- myth
N
Narrative poem
- Narrator
- Naturalism
- Non-fiction
- Novel
O
Octet
- Ode
- Onomatopoeia
- Oral tradition
- Oxymoron
P
Parable
- Parody
- Pastoral
- Pathetic fallacy
- Personification
- Persuasion
- Playwright
- Plot
- Poetic diction
- Poetry
- Point of view
- Prose
- Protagonist
Q
Quantitative verse
- Quatrain
- Quintain (poetry)
- Quotation
R
Realism
- Refrain
- Repetition
- Resistance literature
- Resolution
- Rhyme
- Rhyme scheme
- Rhythm
S
Sarcasm
- Scan (poetry)
- Science fiction
- Sensory language
- Sextet
- Short story
- Simile
- Slash
- Socratic irony
- Soliloquy
- Sonnet
- Sprung rhythm
- Stage direction
- Stanza
- Style
- Subliterature
- Surprise ending
- Surrealism
- Suspense
- Syllabic verse
- Symbol
- Symbolism
- Synecdoche
- Synaesthesia
T
Tall tale
- Theater
- Theme
- Transferred epithet
U
Ubi sunt
- Ultraist movement
- Unanimism
- Understatement
- University Wits
- Ut pictura poesis
V
Variorum
- Vers de société
- Vers libre
- Verse
- Verse novel
- Verse paragraph
- Vice (character)
- Victorian literature
- Vignette (literature)
- Villain/villainess
- Villanelle
- Virelai
- Volta (literature)
W
War poet
- Whodunit
Y
Yellow back
Z
Zeugma
See also
- Glossary of poetry terms
- List of literary terms