The following sources will help you find definitions for literary terms like alliteration, imagery, meter, and metaphor. It is helpful to look up a term in more than one resource, as the definition in one source may make more sense to you than in another. This is a small sample of the books we have on literary terms; keyword searches will find more titles in the library catalogue.
The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
A Dictionary of Literary Devices
The Poetry Handbook: A Guide to Reading Poetry for Pleasure and Practical Criticism
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