Literary terms in German
The list of German translations of literary terms, sorted alphabetically according to each term's English name.
A
- allegory • Allegorie
- alliteration • Alliteration
- allusion • Allusion
- anachronism • Anachronismus
- Anaphora • Anaphora
- antagonist • Antagonist
- antithesis • Antithese
- archetype • Archetypus
- assonance • Assonanz
C
- chiasmus • Chiasmus
- climax • Klimax
D
- denouement • Dénouement
- deus ex machina • Deus ex machina
E
- ellipsis • Auslassungspunkte
- enjambment • Enjambement
- epithet • Epitheton
- euphemism • Euphemismus
F
- foreshadowing • epische Vorausdeutung
G
- genre • Genre
H
- hamartia • Hamartie
- hyperbole • Hyperbel
I
- imagery • Sprachliches Bild
- in medias res • in medias res
- irony • Ironie
L
- leitmotif • Leitmotiv
- literary trope • Tropus
M
- metaphor • Metapher
N
- narrative • Erzählung
- narrative motif • Motiv
- narrative point of view • Erzählperspektive
O
- ode • Ode
- onomatopoeia • Lautmalerei
- oxymoron • Oxymoron
P
- paradox • Paradoxon
- pathetic fallacy • Reifikation
- personification • Personifikation
- plot • Handlung
- protagonist • Protagonist
S
- simile • Vergleich
- soliloquy • Soliloquium
- sonnet • Sonett
- stream of consciousness • Bewusstseinsstrom
- synecdoche • Synekdoche
T
- tone • Erzählhaltung
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