10-12 Literature Terms

English Lit

allegory
allusion
analogy
anecdote
archetype
assonance
author’s bias
clincher sentence
consonance
context
couplet
denotative meaning
epic
expressive writing
irony
limited point of view
lyric poem
ode
omniscient point of view
onomatopoeia
parable
resume’
rhetorical question
sarcasm
semicolon
soliloquy
stream of consciousness
structural analysis
thesis
thesis statement
universal theme

Senior Lit

acronym
ambience
aesthetic purpose
appeal to authority
aesthetic quality
appeal to emotion
American Psychological As appeal to logic
autobiographical narrative
artifact
belief system
ballad
biographical narrative
bias
circumlocution
coherence
cohesion
credibility
concept
criteria
connotative meaning
debate
direct address
divided quotation
dramatic dialogue
drama-documentary
emotional appeal
external/internal conflict
future perfect verb tense hierarchic structure
hostile audience
interior monologue
internal conflict
Neoclassic literature
literary criticism
pastoral
nuance
proposition of fact speech
proposition of policy speech
past perfect verb tense
proposition of problem speech
proposition of value speech
Romantic period literature
secondary source
temporal change
standard English
text feature
text structure
overstatement
understatement

Style Guides

Main Style Guides

  • The Chicago Manual of Style
  • Modern Language Association
  • The Associated Press Stylebook
United Kingdom Styles
  • The Oxford Style Manual
  • The King’s English
  • Copy-editing: The Cambridge Handbook for Editors, Authors and Publishers

Field-Specific Style Guide Examples

  • ACS Style Guide (American Chemical Society)
  • Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers (Council of Science Editors)
  • SBL Handbook of Style (Society of Biblical Literature, ancient Near Eastern, biblical, and early Christian studies)
  • American Medical Association Manual of Style
  • American Psychological Association Style Guide
  • American Sociological Association Style Guide