Terms for Literary Criticism
| For Short Stories | For Plays |
| Action | Action |
| Authorial Point of View | Chorus |
| Characterization | Comedy |
| Conflict | Conflict |
| Dialogue | Dialogue |
| Diction | Hubris |
| denotation, connotation | Irony |
| Irony | Plot |
| Imagery | Protagonist |
| Plot | Soliloquy |
| Mood | Strophe, anti-strophe |
| Syntax | Tragedy |
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| For Essays | For Poems |
| Ethos | Ballad |
| Diction | Couplet |
| Denotation, connotation | Dramatic Poems |
| Irony | Epic (Narrative) Poems |
| Imagery | Iambic pentameter |
| Logos | Imagery |
| Mood | Lyric Poems |
| Pathos | Metaphor |
| Syntax | Ode |
| Theme | Pastoral |
| Tone | Rhyme scheme |
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| Rhythm (meter) |
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| Stanza |