Literary Texts and Critical Methods

Study Sheet of Terms for Exam (organized thematically and in some kind of logical order)

Elements of Poetry
1. Sonnet
2.Stanza
3.Meter
4.Blank Verse
5.Free Verse
6.Prosedy
7.Frame Story
8.Epic Simile
9.Alliteration
10.Metaphor
Literary Periods
11. Old English Period
12.Renaissance
13.Restoration
14.Metaphysical Poets
15.Enlightenment
16.Augustan Age
17.Neoclassic
18.Romantic
19.Transcendentalism in America
20.Naturalism
21.Realism
22.Modernism
23.Harlem Renaissance
24.Postmodernism
Genres and Literary Approaches
25. Dream Vision
26.Comedy
27.Tragedy
28.Satire
29.Irony (subset: Dramatic Irony)
30.Allegory
31.Chivalric Romance
32.Elegy
33.Gothic Novel
34.Problem Play
35.Stream of Consciousness
Themes
36. Courtly Love
37.Great Chain of Being
38.Seven Deadly Sins
Critical Schools/Approaches
39. Textual Criticism
40.Canon of Literature
41.New Criticism
42.Formalism
43.Semiotics
44.Structuralist Criticism
45.Humanism
46.Psychological Criticism
47.Reception theory
48.Reader-Response criticism
49.Dialogic Criticism
50.Feminist Criticism
51.Marxism
52.Cultural Studies
53.New Historicism
54.Deconstruction
55.Poststructuralism
56.Psychoanalytic Criticism
57.Postcolonial studies