Today, we’re going to get to know more about the words that are related to English literature. Let’s move ahead to the table to find out about it.
English literature is the collected creative writing including all the paper, treatises, etc. Those are published, some of them in academic journals on English subjects.
English Literature Vocabulary of Literary Terms
Following is the list of terms used in Literature along with their meanings for Literary analysis:
| Words | Meaning |
| Allegory | A brief story with a moral message |
| Alliteration | Sentence with the use of same consonant at the beginning of each words |
| Analogy | Comparison of something to show their similarity |
| Anaphora | Words that replaced or refer to another word that used earlier in the sentence to avoid repetition |
| Anecdote | Short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person. |
| Antagonist | The opposite of the protagonist in a story line |
| Antonym | A word that has the opposite meaning from the another |
| Ballad | Kind of song that has a storyline, whether it’s dramatic, funny, or romantic |
| Bard | Someone who makes the poet |
| Catachresis | The use of a word in a way that is not correct, for example, the use of mitigate for militate. |
| Chiasmus | Rhetorical or sentence that used for words, grammatical constructions, or concepts that are repeated in reverse order, in the same or modified form |
| Colloquialism | The use of familiar or ordinary words or also phrases |
| Deixis | It refers to the case or phenomenon where the meaning of words or phrase require supporting contextual information in order to be understood |
| Denouement | The final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work In the denouement |
| Derogatory | Sentences or phrases that show disrespectful attitude |
| Dialogue | Conversation between two or more people |
| Diction | Choice and the use of words and phrases in speech or writing. |
| Dolour | Sentence that states great sorrow or distress condition |
| Drama | An exciting, emotional, or stunning series of events or set of circumstances that plays in the theatre, radio, or television |
| Elegy | Poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. |
| Ellipsis | The omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues. |
| Epic poetry | This is a long narrative poem, usually related to supernatural power |
| Epistolary | To form or write a letter |
| Epistrophe | Repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences. |
| Fable | Short version of a story or tale that has a moral lesson, the characters are usually the animals |
| Homonym | Several words that have the same meaning |
| Hymn | Religious song or poem of praise to God |
| Hyperbole | Statements or claims that are fabricated so that they are not meant to be understood literally |
| Imagery | Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. |
| Litotes | An ironic understatement that expressed something with the negative form of its contrary |
| Lyricism | The way artists express their emotion in an imaginative and beautiful way |
| Malapropism | The mistaken use of some word with the other word that sounds similar with it |
| Metaphor | Phrases or words that portray object, figure, or something but it is not applicable |
| Narrative | The narrative is a sort of story with the perspective of the storyteller that tells to someone with the great details |
| Ode | Poem that are meant to be sung |
| Paradox | A paradox, also known as an antinomy, is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one’s expectation. |
| Parody | Imitation of a particular writer, artist, genre, or art with exaggeration effect and usually are humorous |
| Personification | The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something that are not human |
| Poetry | The application of making some text to express the writer’s feeling using rhymes and beautiful words. They can also be considered as poems collectively or as a genre of literature. |
| Prologue | An opening to the story |
| Protagonist | The good side character that usually is being the hero, and also the main character of the story |
| Repetition | An action of repeating something that has already been said or written. |
| Satire | Is a genre of literature and performing arts that shows the vices, follies, or abuses in order to motivate them to make some improvement |
| Synonym | Two or more words that are different but have the same meaning |
| Trope | A word or expression used in a figurative sense |
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