Literary terms in Spanish
The list of Spanish translations of literary terms, sorted alphabetically according to each term's English name.
A
- allegory • alegoría
- alliteration • aliteración
- allusion • alusión
- anachronism • anacronismo
- Anaphora • Anáfora
- antagonist • antagonista
- antithesis • antítesis
- archetype • arquetipo
- assonance • rima asonante
C
- chiasmus • quiasmo
- climax • acmé
D
- denouement • desenlace
- deus ex machina • deus ex machina
E
- ellipsis • puntos suspensivos
- enjambment • encabalgamiento
- epithet • epíteto
- euphemism • eufemismo
F
- foreshadowing • Foreshadowing
G
- genre • género
H
- hamartia • hamartia
- hyperbole • hipérbole
I
- imagery • imaginería
- in medias res • In medias res
- irony • ironía
J
- juxtaposition • yuxtaposición
L
- leitmotif • leitmotiv
- literary trope • tropo
M
- metaphor • metáfora
N
- narrative • narrativa
- narrative motif • tópico literario
- narrative point of view • punto de vista narrativo
O
- ode • oda
- onomatopoeia • onomatopeya
- oxymoron • oxímoron
P
- paradox • paradoja
- pathetic fallacy • Falacia patética
- personification • personificación
- plot • trama
- protagonist • protagonista
S
- simile • símil
- soliloquy • soliloquio
- sonnet • soneto
- stream of consciousness • Corriente de conciencia
- synecdoche • sinécdoque
T
- tone • tono
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