Literary Forms and Genres


 * abstract poetry
 * accentual verse
 * aestheticism
 * Amerind
 * angry young man
 * animal epic
 * antinovel
 * Apollonian
 * apologue
 * Attic
 * autobiography
 * avant-garde
 * ballad
 * ballad stanza
 * baroque
 * Beat Generation
 * belles-lettres
 * Bildungsroman
 * biography
 * Bloomsbury group
 * Byronic
 * Celtic Renaissance
 * chanson
 * chanson de geste
 * chronicle
 * classical
 * classicism
 * comedy
 * comedy of intrigue
 * comedy of manners
 * comedy of morals
 * comic relief
 * concrete poetry
 * confession
 * courtly love
 * criticism
 * cyberpunk
 * cycle
 * dada
 * decadent
 * deconstruction
 * detective story
 * diary
 * dime novel
 * drama
 * eclogue
 * elegy
 * Elizabethan
 * epic
 * epic poem
 * epigram
 * epistle
 * epistolary novel
 * epithalamium
 * epos
 * erotica
 * essay
 * exemplum
 * Expressionism
 * fable
 * fabulism
 * faction
 * fairy tale
 * fantasy
 * farce
 * festschrift
 * fiction
 * fin de siecle
 * Gongorism
 * Gothic
 * graveyard school
 * grotesque
 * Grub Street
 * haiku
 * heroic
 * high comedy
 * historical novel
 * idyll
 * Jacobean
 * jeremiad
 * journal
 * juvenilia
 * kaleyard school
 * lampoon
 * letter
 * letters
 * limerick
 * literature
 * Lost Generation
 * low comedy
 * lyric poetry
 * masque
 * melic
 * melodrama
 * memoir
 * memoirs
 * minimalism
 * miracle play
 * missive
 * mock-heroic
 * modernism
 * monograph
 * mystery
 * mystery play
 * myth
 * naturalism
 * New Criticism
 * New Humanism
 * nonfiction
 * novel
 * novelette
 * novella
 * nursery rhyme
 * occasional verse
 * ode
 * Parnassian
 * parody
 * pasquinade
 * pastel
 * pastiche
 * penny dreadful
 * Petrarchan sonnet
 * picaresque novel
 * poem
 * poetry
 * polemic
 * polyphonic prose
 * postmodernism
 * poststructuralism
 * potboiler
 * prose
 * prosody
 * prothalamion
 * psychobiography
 * psychological novel
 * quantitative verse
 * Rabelaisian
 * realism
 * Renaissance
 * Restoration comedy
 * rhyme
 * roman
 * roman a clef
 * roman-fleuve
 * Romanticism
 * rondeau
 * rondel
 * saga
 * satire
 * science fiction
 * semiotics
 * serial
 * Shakespearean sonnet
 * short short story
 * short story
 * sirvente
 * sketch
 * soap opera
 * socialist realism
 * song
 * sonnet
 * speech
 * Sturm und Drang
 * surrealism
 * Symbolism
 * tanka
 * technothriller
 * tetralogy
 * textual criticism
 * thriller
 * tongue twister
 * tradegy
 * tragicomedy
 * translation
 * trilogy
 * true life
 * verse
 * versification
 * Victorian
 * vita
 * western
 * whodunit