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|2010, 2016*|
A LIST OF LITERARY ELEMENTS/SOUND DEVICES, & FIGURE OF SPEECH TERMS
Antithesis
Assonance
Alliteration
Allegory
Antonomasia
Anticlimax
Apostrophe
Allusion
Aphorism
Anecdote
Analogy
ABC poem*
Ballad
Bathos
Burlesque
Blank verse
Ballade*
Blank verse*
Climax
Chiasmus
Caesura
Conceit
Couplet
Cinquain*
Canzone*
Carpe diem*
Classicism*
Dirge
Didactic
Diction
Elegy
Euphemism
Epic
Ellipsis
Eulogy
Enjambment
Epigram
Euphony
Epithalamium/Epithalamion*
Fable
Fiction
Free verse*
Hendiadys
Humour
Hyperbole
Haiku*
Irony
Innuendo
Imagery
Idyll/Idyl
Iambic pentameter
Lyric
Litotes
Lullaby
Limerick
Laconic
Lay*
Lyric*
Metonymy
Meiosis
Myth
Malapropism
Metaphor
Metre
Name poem*
Ode
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Paradox
Personification
Pun
Pitchy
Prolepsis
Pathetic fallacy
Pastoral
Parody
Prosody
Quatrain*
Repetition
Romance
Rhetoric/Rhetorical question
Rhyme
Rhythm
Refrain
Rhyme royal*
Romanticism*
Simile
Sonnet
Synergy
Symbolism
Syllepsis
Satire
Synopsis
Synecdoche
Sarcasm
Senryu*
Travesty
Tanka*
Terza rima*
Verse*
Zeugma