Literary Terms

literature
History of literature
history of the book
Western canon
the teaching of writing: composition, rhetoric
poetry
prosody
meter
scansion
Constrained writing
poetics
villanelle
sonnet
sestina
ghazal
ballad
blank verse
free verse
epic poetry
prose
fiction
non-fiction
biography
prose genres
novel
short story
journalism
essay
theater
history of theater
literary criticism
rhetoric
metaphor
metonymy
symbol
allegory
Basic procedural knowledge
poetry analysis
how to read an essay
how to write a story
how to write a poem
effective reasoning in argument writing
Techniques and conceits
False document
Frame tale
anecdote
point of view
Varieties of literary criticism (applications of Literary theory)
Marxist literary criticism
Semiotic literary interpretation
Psychoanalytic literary interpretation
Feminist literary interpretation
New historicism