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Literature: General
acrostic
alexandrine
allegory
alliteration
almanac
anagram
anecdote
antithesis
aphorism
apology
archetype
autobiography
ballad
ballade
bard
belles-lettres
biography
bluestocking
carpe diem
childrens literature
chronicle
chronicle plays
Chronicles
classicism
closet drama
comedy
conceit
oratory
courtly love
criticism
diary
dictionary
dumb show
elegy
epic
epigram
epitaph
epithalamium
essay
fable
fabliau
farce
figure of speech
free verse
Gothic romance
haiku
hexameter
history
homily
hornbook
hyperbole
idyl
irony
learned and literary societies
Limerick (Ireland)
litotes
little magazine
lyric
melodrama
metaphor
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monologue
Mother Goose
mystery
neoclassicism
novel
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ode
onomatopoeia
oral history
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parody
pastoral
pentameter
personification
poetry
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pseudonym
pun
Renaissance
rhyme
riddle
romance
romanticism
satire
science fiction
short story
simile
soliloquy
sonnet
stream of consciousness
style
symbolists
synecdoche
tall tale
pearl
tragedy
translation
versification
naturalism (literature)
realism (literature)
teleportation (science fiction)
Popular literature
Literary criticism
Deus ex machina
Historiography
Chapbooks
Rhetoric
Fiction
Rime
Assonance
Jargon
Blank verse
vers libre
prosody
variorum
Authors League of America
Detective Story
novella
cliffhanger
bibliophile
comic
copybook
obelus
author
Goldilocks
Authorship
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