Literature

Literal translation

Literal translation (word-for-word rendering)

Literary element

Literary genre

Literary genre: classifications, forms, history and uses

Literary technique

Literary technique: tools authors use to shape meaning and effect

Literary term

Literary term: definition, categories, history and uses

Literature

Literature: forms, history, and cultural significance

Little House in the Big Woods

Little House on the Prairie

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Men

Little Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood (folk tale)

Little Women

Little Women — novel by Louisa May Alcott

Little Women (1933 movie)

Loamhedge

Loamhedge (Redwall novel)

Lord Jim

Lost Generation

Love in the Time of Cholera

Low comedy

Luna Lovegood

Lyric poetry

Lyric poetry: definition, history, and characteristics

Madame Bovary

Magnificent Obsession (novel)

Magnificent Obsession (novel) — Lloyd C. Douglas

Mary Had a Little Lamb

Matilda (novel)

Mattimeo

Mattimeo — Brian Jacques’s 1989 Redwall adventure

Medieval Latin

Melanie

Melanie (given name)

Memoir

Memoir (literary genre)

Metaphor

Metaphor: meaning, types, history, and everyday uses

Metaphysical poets

Metaphysical poets: English 17th‑century lyric innovators

Meter (poetry)

Middlemarch

Minerva McGonagall

Minerva McGonagall — Hogwarts professor and headmistress

Miss Marple

Miss Marple — Agatha Christie’s elderly amateur detective

Moby-Dick

Modernist literature

Modernist literature: themes, techniques, history, and legacy

Mort

Mort (Discworld novel)

Mother Goose

Murder on the Orient Express

My Sister's Keeper

Mystery fiction

Narrative

Narratology

Naturalism (literature)

Niggers in the White House

"Niggers in the White House" (racist poem)

Northrop Frye

Northrop Frye (1912–1991): Canadian literary critic and theorist

Novel

Novella

Novella: form, features, history and distinctions