Literary terms in French
The list of French translations of literary terms, sorted alphabetically according to each term's English name.
A
- allegory • allégorie
- alliteration • allitération
- allusion • allusion
- anachronism • anachronisme
- Anaphora • Anaphore
- antagonist • antagoniste
- antithesis • antithèse
- archetype • archétype
- assonance • assonance
C
- chiasmus • chiasme
- climax • acmé
D
- denouement • dénouement
- deus ex machina • deus ex machina
E
- ellipsis • points de suspension
- enjambment • enjambement
- epithet • épithète
- euphemism • euphémisme
F
- foreshadowing • foreshadowing
G
- genre • genre
H
- hyperbole • hyperbole
I
- in medias res • In medias res
- irony • ironie
J
- juxtaposition • juxtaposition
L
- leitmotif • leitmotiv
- literary trope • Trope (fiction)
M
- metaphor • métaphore
N
- narrative • récit
- narrative motif • motif narratif
- narrative point of view • point de vue narratif
O
- ode • ode
- onomatopoeia • onomatopée
- oxymoron • oxymore
P
- paradox • paradoxe logique
- pathetic fallacy • Réification
- personification • personnification
- plot • intrigue
- protagonist • protagoniste
S
- simile • comparaison
- soliloquy • soliloque
- sonnet • sonnet
- stream of consciousness • courant de conscience
- synecdoche • synecdoque
T
- tone • registre littéraire
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