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 |
| Rhythm (meter) |
Simile | |
Sonnet | |
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