Category: literature (192 terms)
- alter ego
- alternate history
- angst bunny
- a year and a day
- beauty and the beast
- bell jar
- black comedy
- black spot
- blood and thunder
- book club
- book form
- book mite
- book of the film
- book of words
- book stamp
- book trade
- book world
- box set
- brave new world
- buried treasure
- cakes and ale
- cardboard cut-out
- character density
- chat fiction
- cold fire
- coming of age
- crack fic
- creative writing
- creature of the night
- cyclic poet
- dark light
- deep point
- deus ex machina
- doll's house
- double meaning
- dramatic structure
- earthly paradise
- elective affinity
- end rhyme
- eternal sleep
- evening star
- ewe lamb
- exquisite corpse
- eye dialect
- faan fiction
- face claim
- fairy godmother
- fairy story
- fairy tale
- fairy-tale ending
- false scent
- family romance
- fan fiction
- fantasy world
- fat fantasy
- figure of speech
- first person
- first reader
- flash fiction
- forward echo
- future history
- ghost character
- golden egg
- gooney bird
- grey ghost
- half blood
- half rhyme
- happily ever after
- happy ending
- high adventure
- high fantasy
- historical criticism
- historical present
- horror story
- hysteron proteron
- infernal stone
- in medias res
- interactive fiction
- internal conflict
- internal monologue
- jenny wren
- jeu d'esprit
- lay figure
- lion's mane
- literary fiction
- literary language
- literary present
- little woman
- locus classicus
- lord of the flies
- lost world
- love interest
- love scene
- low fantasy
- magic carpet
- magnum opus
- main character
- man versus time
- meet cute
- metrical structure
- might and main
- minor prophet
- modest proposal
- mommy porn
- monkey's paw
- mortal coil
- murder book
- murder mystery
- nether region
- open sesame
- original character
- paper book
- passage of arms
- pattern book
- penny dreadful
- pepper up
- perfect rhyme
- period piece
- poetical justice
- poetic justice
- poet laureate
- point of view
- pot boiler
- prodigal son
- punch line
- punctum stans
- pure good
- queen of hearts
- race lift
- reading book
- read through
- red book
- redemption arc
- redemptive arc
- red herring
- red wedding
- reference book
- reset button
- rhyme out
- romantic comedy
- roof tree
- rouge et noir
- royal fox
- scarlet letter
- scarlet woman
- science fantasy
- science fiction
- scientific romance
- secondary source
- second person
- sentimental comedy
- slash fiction
- slave of the lamp
- sleep flower
- slice of life
- slough of despond
- slow burn
- smuggler's moon
- snow queen
- social commentary
- socialist realist
- space opera
- speculative fiction
- spoken word
- squirrel cage
- stream of consciousness
- sudden fiction
- sword and sorcery
- tech noir
- tell all
- textus receptus
- third person
- ticking clock
- time opera
- true crime
- true lover's knot
- turning point
- tuwhit tuwhoo
- urban fantasy
- vale of tears
- war story
- water cell
- water of life
- white hat
- white whale
- wily beguily
- word painting
- word play
- work of fiction
- world literature
- yellow admiral
- young adult