SAT Literature Words

allegory

alliteration

allusion

anachronism

anaclisis

anadiplosis

analogy

anaphora

anastrophe

anecdote

antagonist

anthropomorphism

antithesis

antonym

apogee

aposiopesis

apostrophe

aside

assonance

asyndeton

auditory

ballad

bard

bathos

beholden

blank verse

bombast

canticle

carter

catachresis

catechism

catharsis

chiasmus

chicanery

collocation

colloquialism

confound

consonance

couplet

cryptic

curtal

deixis

demotic

Demotic script

denouement

derogatory

dialogue

diction

didactic

dissemble

dolour

drama

dramatic irony

dug

elegy

ellipsis

emblem

end-stopped

enjambment

enmity

epic poetry

epigram

epiphany

epistolary

epistrophe

epitaph

epitome

epoch

equanimity

ethos

eulogy

euphemism

explicit

fable

fief

figurative

flout

foreshadow

forsake

free verse

frisson

guile

hearse

heroic couplet

homonym

humility

hymn

hyperbaton

hyperbole

hypozeuxis

iambic

imagery

implicit

importune

incensed

inversion

invidious

irony

kinesthetic

lamentation

liege

listing

litotes

Logos

lyricism

malapropism

malignant

meiosis

meme

metaphor

metonymy

mimicry

moiety

motif

nadir

narrative

neologism

ode

olfactory

omniscient

onomatopoeia

otiose

oxymoron

paean

parable

paradox

paradoxical sleep

paragon

parallelism

parallelism

parody

paronomasia

pastoral

pathos

pejorative

persnickety

personification

ploce

poetry

polyptoton

polysyndeton

portmanteau word

preface

premonitory

prologue

prose

prosody

protagonist

pun

purge

rancour

redeemer

refrain

repetition

requiem

sardonic

satire

simile

soliloquy

sonnet

sophistry

specious argument

speech rhythm

sprung rhythm

stanza

surrealism

symbolism

symploce

synaesthesia

synecdoche

synesthetic metaphor

synonym

syntax

tactile

tautology

theme

tone

topos

totem

trope

unwittingly

vassal

verisimilitude

versification

visual

wretched

zeal

zeugma

terza rima

heroic couplet

apostrophe

assonance

consonance

onomatopoeia

novelette

novella

epic poem

foible

mock-heroic

verisimilitude

third person

first person

second person

omniscient

omnipresent

fable

bestial

apposition

anaphora

tactile

auditory

visual

olfactory

epithalamium

anapest

neologism

heath

fern

portend

conceit

unrequited

epithet

dystopia

utopia

leitmotif

moral

motif

semiotics

fable

burlesque

trope

tanka

haiku

ode

strophe

anastrophe

acrostic

anachronistic

apothegm

autotelism

avant-garde

baroque