List of literary vocabulary.
This list doesn’t look useful but, after all, I think posting my English literature classes may be useful, because this class is mandatory in literature field.
Now, just the basis, the beginning of my notebook.
Prose
- biography, autobiography
- a novel → a novelist, writer, author
- short story → fiction
- the plot (story)
- a fairy tale “Once upon a time”.
- a reader
- a thriller, detective story, whodunit
- the narrator
- characters, main character
- the setting
Drama
- a dramatist, a playwright
- a play
- the stage
- the dialogue, a monologue
- comedy, tragedy → comic, tragic
- the director
- an actor, an actress : to act a play, to perform
- a line (réplique)
- spectators
- costumes
Poetry
- a poet, poetess
- a line (vers)
- a vers (strophe), a steanza
- a poem
- rhymes
- rhythm