Antonomasia: Synecdoque that consists of replacing the proper name with the

appellative or vice versa.

Anthropomorphic: Attribution of human qualities to natural or artificial things. Eg
The engine is the heart of the car.
Apart: Words of a dramatic character said as to himself or directed to the public
pretending that others do not hear him.
Apocope: Suppression of one or more letters at the end of a word. Eg some for
some.
Apocryphal; (From the Greek "apokryphos": hidden, secret). Inauthentic work, as
for the author or the time to which it is said to belong. It comes from the sacred
books that did not appear to have been inspired by the divinity.
Apology: Speech in which a person or a cause is praised or defended.
Apologetic: Brief fable or allegorical story that serves as vehicle for a moral
doctrine or contains some useful lesson.
Apostrophe: Court of the speaker's speech to invoke with vehemence someone
present or not in the audience or an imaginary being
Background: Meaning of a literary work, regardless of its expression.
Ballad: poetic composition divided into equal strophes, generally destined to sing
sentimental legends and popular traditions; its origin is certain type of medieval
French lyric poems. Original epic-lyric poem of Anglo-Germanic literatures.
Baquio: Foot of Greek and Latin poetry composed of the first short syllable
followed by two long.
Barbarism: misspelling or in the pronunciation of a word; for ex. haiga for beech
Also, use of foreign words, existing their Spanish equivalences; for ex. link by link
(They can be Anglicisms, Gallicisms, etc.).
Bard: Poet Origin in the ancient Celts.
Baroque: a literary movement of the Golden Age characterized by the excess or by
the accumulation of ornamental elements.
Barroquismo: Busy and ornate style. By extension, bad taste.
Batology: Pleonasm. Inclusion in a sentence of words that mean the same thing
or that are implicit.
Cartoon: Narrative usually brief of little literary value. Comic .
Cartoonist: Comic book author.
Cántigas: Medieval troubadour compositions typical of the Galician-Portuguese
lyric, written in Galician.
Catáfora: (From Greek: leading down) Word (deixis) that anticipates a part of the
speech. For ex. "What he proposed is this: to be stopped."
Cataléctico: Greek or Latin verse that lacks a syllable at the end, or is imperfect
on its feet.
Cesura: Pause that divides a verse in two hemistiquios
Dactyl: (From the Greek "dactylos": finger). Foot of Greek poetry that contains a
long first syllable and the two remaining brief.
Datismo: Unpleasant repetition of synonyms.
Decasílabo: Verse formed by ten syllables. Uncommon in Spanish literature.
Eco: poetic composition in which part of a word is repeated, or a whole word,
especially if it is monosyllabic, to form a new meaningful word and to echo the
previous one.
Ectasis: poetic license that allows to extend a short syllable to get the measure of
the verse.
Edition: Printing or reproduction of a work. Set of copies of a work published by
the same means in a given period of time
Folletín: Story of exciting intrigue, with characters that represent elementary
feelings.
Form: Appearance of the literary continent. Opposite and complementary to the
background or content.
Futurism: Literary and artistic trend emerged in Italy at the beginning of the
twentieth century.
Hipotacsis: Form of Baroque literature, probably born in the administrative prose
of the Indies.
Hipotiposis: Passionate description of a person.
History: Real or fictional events narrated in a literary work.
Motto: Sentence that aims to regulate human behavior. Phrase adopted by a group
or organization as a basic rule.
Leonino: Latin verse used in the Middle Ages, whose final syllables are consonant
with the last of his first hemistich.
Letrilla: A poem of short verses written to put on music; usually consists of a few
verses followed by a refrain that repeats the theme, usually humorous or satirical.
Lexema: invariable part of a word, in which lies the fundamental meaning of it.
Monograph: Treaty on a specific topic, usually part of a more general one.
Monologue: Work, or part of it, in which only one character speaks. It can be
inside (if it is not expressed) or narrated.
Monoptoning: The phonetic reduction of a diphthong to a single vowel. Ex. "Until
logo" instead of "see you later"
Monorrima: Series of verses with the same rhyme.
Phonetics: Branch of linguistics that deals with sounds.
Paraphrase: Colloquially, repeat phrases of a known author.
Paraphrasing: Explanation of a text by amplification. Free translation in verse.
Paragofe: Metaplasm that consists of adding and / or changing a letter at the end
of a word. For ex. Happy for happy.
Parallelism: the repetition of syntactic or sound patterns that indicate some
relationship of meaning between them.
Paranesis: Word used by Schopenhauer to present a kind of advice on life in his
work "Art of living".
Pseudonym: False name that an author uses when signing his works to hide his
identity.
Sextet: verse of six verses.
Sextilla: Verse of six minor art verses.
Sistine: Composition of six hendecasyllabic verses that rhyme in alternate
consonant the first four and form a couplet the last two.