Critical categories and critical verbs literature; literary; poetry; drama; prose; fiction; non-fiction; narrative; criticism; theory;

culture; compare; contrast; close reading; gloss; interpret. Textual types and publication text; manuscript; codex; edition; variant; hypertext; canon. Genre, typology, structure, register realist; naturalist; epic; tragedy; comedy; mystery play; interlude; hymn; prayer; lyric; ballad; song; sonnet; ode; concrete poetry; epigram; epithalamion; elegy; georgic; eclogue; pastoral; romance; fable; fairytale; folk; novel; novella; chronicle; history; autobiography; biography; letter; epistolary; journalism; essay; homily; maxim; story; plot; character; caricature; time scheme; point of view; epigraph; prologue; dialogue; nuclei; catalyzers; recognition; reversal; catharsis; epilogue; chapter; scene; chorus; decorum; grotesque; picturesque; comic; burlesque; mockheroic; classic; medieval; renaissance; baroque; gothic; romantic; Victorian; modernist; postmodern. Rhetoric and poetics strophe; stanza; terza rima; ottava rima; villanelle; sestina; rondeau; rhyme royal; rhythm; metre; prosody (spondaic, iambic, dactylic, etc.); sprung rhythm; caesura; cadence; enjambement; rhyme; couplet; cross rhyme; half rhyme; rime riche; feminine ending; alliteration; assonance; consonance; blank verse; free verse; syntax; deixis; hypotaxis; parataxis; direct, indirect, and reported speech; free indirect style; dialect; colloquial; homophone; homonym; euphony; antithesis; chiasmus; anaphora; antanaclasis; anthypophora; aposiopesis; apostrophe; auxesis; bathos; climax; ekphrasis; epistrophe; epizeuxis; hyperbaton; hyperbole; paralipsis; ellipsis; parison; periphrasis; ploche; polyptoton; polysyndeton; prosopopoeia; zeugma; simile; metonymy; (dead) metaphor. Critical emphases, movements and debates mimesis; imitation; moral; allegory; wit; humours; fancy; imagination; sublime; beautiful; pathetic fallacy; disinterestedness; aestheticism; emotion; feeling; sentiment; sincerity; authenticity; difficulty; ambiguity; pun; allusion; tradition; symbol; objective correlative; image; motif; conceit; 4irony; tone; mood; form; content; sound; sense; formalism; hermeneutics; new criticism; intentional fallacy; affective fallacy; psychoanalysis; unconscious; Oedipal; dreamwork; melancholy; neurosis; repression; sublimation; uncanny; Marxism; ideology; discourse; cultural materialism; new historicism; structuralism; sign; signifier; (transcendental) signified; synchronic; diachronic; intertextuality; poststructuralism; deconstruction; difference; diffrance; supplementarity; logocentrism; feminism; gender; patriarchy; queer theory; imperialism; race; postcolonialism; performance; performativity.