Literary Schools and Styles

• 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