- Action Beats
- Allegory
- Allusion
- Amalgamation
- Analogy
- Anaphora
- Archetype
- Arkhe [Arche]
- Assonance
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- Auteur
- Axiom
- Beholder's Share
- Body Narrative
- Cadence
- Catharsis
- Character
- Chiaroscuro
- Climax
- Conflict
- Consonance
- Critical Race Theory (1970s to present)
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- Dénouement
- Dialogue
- Dialogue Tags
- Diction
- Différance
- Doppelgänger
- Ecocriticism (1960s to present)
- Epigraph
- Essay
- Experimental Fiction (Innovative Fiction)
- Exposition
- Fable
- Fairy Tale
- Fallacy
- Feminist Criticism (1960s-present)
- Fiction
- Foil
- Formalism (1930s-present)
- Gender Studies and Queer Theory (1970s-present)
- Genre
- Hybrid Forms
- Intermedia
- Irony
- Lacanian Criticism (1930s to present)
- Lateralization
- Liminality
- Linguistics
- Logical Positivism
- Logocentrism
- Lyric Essay
- Magic Realism (Magical Realist)
- Marxist Criticism (1930s-present)
- Meta-ethics
- Metafiction
- Metaphor
- Metaphysics
- Mind-body Problem
- mise-en-scène
- Moral Criticism, Dramatic Construction (~360 BC-present)
- Motif
- Narrative
- Neoformalism (1980s to present)
- New Criticism/Neo-Aristotelian (1930s-present)
- New Historicism/Cultural Studies (1980s-present)
- Nihilism
- Nonfiction
- Novel
- Ontology
- Opening
- Paradox
- Parallelism
- Phenomenology
- Plot
- Poetry
- Point of View
- Polysyndeton, Killing [natzees] and Cormac McCarthy
- Post-Colonial Criticism (1990s-present)
- Postmodernism/Post-Structuralism/Deconstruction (1966-present)
- Prose
- Prose Poem
- Protagonist
- Psychic Distance (Authorial Distance)
- Psychoanalytic Criticism, Jungian Criticism (1930s-present)
- Reader-Response Criticism (1960s-present)
- Realism
- Repetition
- Rhetoric
- Rhythm
- Sausserian Linguistics
- Semantics
- Semiotics
- Setting
- Short Short Story
- Signifier & Signified
- Stream of Consciousness
- Structuralism/Semiotics (1920s-present)
- Style
- Summary & Scene
- Syllogism
- Syntax
- Tense
- Tension with Mr. Blond and Vladimir Nabokov
- Textual Evidence
- Texture
- Tone
- Verisimilitude
- Voice
- Writing Alliteration