40 literary terms you should know

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1. Aphorism
2. Apostrophe
3. Applicability
4. Bete noire
5. Bildungsroman
6. Bowdlerize
7. Byronic hero
8. Caesura
9. Death of the author
10. Denouement
11. Didactic
12. Epigraph
13. Epistolary
14. Fin de siecle
15. Foil
16. Hamartia
17. Heresy of paraphrase
18. Hubris
19. Humours
20. In medias res
21. Intertextuality
22. Irony
23. Literary agent hypothesis
24. Magic realism
25. Malapropism
26. Meiosis
27. Meta
28. Mise en scene
29. Picaresque
30. Purple prose
31. Roman a clef
32. Scene a faire
33. Sobriquet
34. Syllogism
35. Synecdoche
36. Tranche de vie
37. Trope
38. Ubi sunt
39. Unreliable narrator
40. Verisimilitude

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