English 2132: American Literature II

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Literary Terms

Poetry
speaker
persona
free verse
meter
caesura
enjambment
rhyme
diction
alliteration
negative capability
objective correlative
impersonal theory of poetry

Fiction
narrator
narrative
story
plot
setting
ellipsis
flashback
flashforward
character
point of view
free indirect discourse
Iceberg Principle
parable
allegory
epiphany
catharsis
climax

General
dramatic irony
situational irony
verbal irony
ethical significance
representation
ambiguity
juxtaposition
style
image
symbol
metaphor
motif
hyperbole
allusion
historical sense
"make it new"

Literary Movements
Romanticism
Realism
Impressionism
Naturalism
Modernism
Post-Modernism
Minimalism
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