LITERARY TERMS YOU SHOULD KNOW

These terms are a basis for some of the questions on the Excet/Secondary English test. They will serve as part of the basis for UTPA English/Excet pretest that is being developed. I will create the test after I've taken the EXCET test myself. 

allegory                                                euphemism                              plot

alliteration                                            figurative language                    poetry

allusion                                                figure of speech                      prose

anachronism                                        foreshadowing                         protagonist

analogy                                                form                                        realism

antagonist                                            free verse                                 rhyme

anti-hero                                              genre                                       rhythm

anthropomorphism                               gothic                                      rising action

apostrophe                                          hyperbole                                romance

archetype                                            iambic pentameter                    satire

assonance                                           image                                      scene

aside                                                   imagery                                    setting

blank verse                                          in medias res                            short story

canon                                                  irony                                        simile

canon formation                                   lyric                                         soliloquy

catharsis                                              metaphor                                 sonnet

character                                             meter                                       stanza

characterization                                    monologue                              stream of consciousness

climax                                                  motif                                       structuralism

comedy                                               myth                                        symbol

conceit                                                narration                                  symbolism

connotation                                         narrator                                    theme

couplet                                                novel                                        tone

denotation                                           novella                                      tragedy

denouement                                        onomatopoeia                          tragic hero

dialogue                                              oxymoron                                tragic irony

drama                                                 paradox                                  verse

dramatic irony                                     parallelism                                voice

epic                                                    parody                                     Western canon

epithet                                                persona

essay                                                  personification