Check the Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms in class for exact definitions and discussions of the import of these terms.
Week 1
1. Absence (presence)
2. Abstract
3. Absurd
4. Accent
5. Acrostic
6. Act
7. Aesthetic distance
8. Aesthetics
9. Affective fallacy
10. Age of Johnson
11. Agrarians
12. Alexandrine
13. Allegory
14. alliteration
15. allusion
16. Ambiguity
17. Amplification
18. Anachronism
19. Anachrony
20. Anagnorisis
Week 2
21. analeppsis
22. anaphora
23. anastrophe
24. anecdote
25. Anglo-Saxon Period (Old English Period)
26. antagonist
27. anticlimzx
28. antihero
29. antimasque
30. antinovel
31. antithesis
32. antithetical criticism
33. antonomasia
34. anxiety of influence
35. aphorism
36. apocalypse, apocalyptic literature
37. apollonian
38. aposiopesis
39. apostrophe
40. appropriation
Week 3
41. Arcadia
42. archaism
43. archetypal criticism
44. archetype
45. aside
46. art for art's sake
47. assonance
48. aysndoton
49. atmosphere
50. aubade
51. Augustan Age (in English Literature)
52. authorial intention
53. autobiographical criticism
54. autobiography
55. avant-garde
56. ballad
57. bard
58. bardic poetry
59. baroque
60. bathos
Week 4
61. bildungsroman
62. binary oppositions
63. biography
64. black humor
65. blank verse
66. blues
67. bombast
68. bucolic
69. burlesque
70. cacophony
71. caesura
72. canon
73. canto
74. caricature
75. carnival (dialogic criticism)
76. carpe diem
77. catachresis
78. catastrophe
79. catharsis
80. Celtic Renaissance
Week 5
81. characterization
82. chorus (Greek drama)
83. chronicle play
84. class
85. classics
86. classicism
87. cliché
88. climax
89. close reading
90. closure
91. codes (hermeneutic view)
92. collective unconscious
93. comedy
94. comedy of manners and humours
95. comic relief
96. commedia dell'arte
97. conceit
98. concrete
99. concrete poetry
100. conflict
Week 6
101. connotation
102. consonance
103. constructionism
104. contextual criticism
105. convention
106. cosmic irony
107. couplet
108. courtly love
109. crisis
110. criticism
111. cultural criticism
112. cultural materialism
113. dactylic
114. Dadaism
115. dead metaphor
116. decadence
117. deconstruction
118. deictics
119. demotic
120. denotation
