FORM & STRUCTURE

trope

allegory

frame

metanarrative

Implied reader

narrator

indeterminacy

coming-of-age

bildungsroman

soliloquy

monologue

duologue

chronology

internal analepsis

external analepsis

prolepsis

tragedy

comedy

realism

Reflexive fiction

parody

farce

satire

ballad

lyric

burlesque

carnivalesque

lampoon

ridicule

sarcasm

canonical

epistolary

eponym

characternym

pseudonym

first-personsecond-personthird-person

(limited) omniscience

objective narrator

unreliable narrator

rising action

falling action

crisis

climax

anti-climax

denouement

bathos

pathos

episodic

intertextuality

foreshadowing

Deus ex Machina

parallelism/mirroring

MOVEMENTS

Renaissance

Gothic

Romantic

Pastoral

Humanistic

Marxist

Structuralist

Aesthetic

Formalist

Feminist

SOUND TERMS

alliterative

sibilant

plosive

assonant

consonant

onomatopoeic

rhyme:feminine – syllable soundhalf-rhyme – final consonants same, preceding vowels noteye rhyme – look the same but not (wind/kind)

heroic couplet

rhythm/meter

prosody

feet:iamb ( )(/) – ‘about’trochee (/) ( ) – ‘golden’anapest ( ) ( ) (/) – ‘underneath’dactyl (/) ( ) ( ) – ‘fantasy’spondee (/) (/) pyrrhic ( ) ( )

stress

cadence

pace

TECHNICAL/LANGUAGE

caesura

enjambment

elision

monosyllabic

polysyllabic

Irony:Dramatic, verbal, situational

anaphora

epistrophe

stichomythic

hamartia

epiphany

anagnorisis

peripateia

semantic field

grandiloquence

euphemistic

metonymy

setting/milieu

asyndeton

polysyndeton

antithesis

oxymoron

hyperbole

imagery:Visual, auditory, kinetic, tactile, olfactory, gustatory, synesthetic

neologism

paradox

periphrasis

pun

METAPHORICAL

metaphor

simile

personification

mixed metaphor

pathetic fallacy

metonymy

synecdoche

allusion

analogy

CHARACTERISATION

archetypes

stock character

flat

static

dynamic

round

protagonist

antagonist

caricature

persona

GOTHIC

portentous

bewitching

ominous

ancestral curse

(anti) Catholicism

body-snatching

revenant

claustrophobia

gothic counterfeit

Doppelgänger

entrapment/imprisonment

prophecies/prophetic dreams

the Uncanny/ the Explained Supernatural

exorcism

Female Gothic

the Sublime

grotesque

incubus/succubus

The Inquisition

necromancy

tragic necrophilia

necrosadism

gothic parody

possession

the pursued protagonist

The pursuit of the heroine

revenge

link between Romanticism and the dark side of nature

sadism

“One must do violence to the object of one’s desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater . . . The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way . . . It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.”--Marquis de Sade, 120 Days of Sodom

somnambulism

The Sublime

supernatural

superstition

transformation

villain-hero:Byronic,Satanic, Promethean