The long word list

A useful literary terms glossary with definitions for a range of terms that A-level students will need to be confident in using. The resource includes concise, student-friendly definitions for the following terms: 

• Ambiguity
• Aside
• Binary opposition
• Blank verse
• Byronic hero
• Catharsis
• Double entendre
• Eponymous
• Gothic
• Hamartia
• Hubris
• Iambic pentameter
• Objective correlative
• Oxymoron
• Paradox
• Pathetic fallacy
• Palimpsest