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The University of Victoria's Writer's Guide includes an extensive list of literary and rhetorical terms. List can be displayed alphabetically.
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literary references, metafiction, allegory, ambiguity, aphorism, archetype, bathos, bombast, canon, character and characterization, chorus, connotation and denotation, discourse, epithet, euphemism, hamartia ("error" or "flaw"), humour, indeterminacy, intertext, intertextuality, magic realism, malapropism, metadrama, motif, myth, nalrrator, paradox, persona, poetic justice, protagonist, pun, self-reflexive, sign, soliloquy, stock characters, stock situations, stream-of-consciousness narration, sympathy and empathy, theme, wit, literary term, literary terms (a-m), literary terms (n-z)
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