APOLOGUE: A moral fable or allegorical story.
BOWDLERIZE: To remove “objectionable” passages from a book.
CHRESTOMATHY: A collection of choice literary passages.
CORRIGENDUM: A mistake to be corrected, especially an error in a printed book.
ENCHIRIDION: A book carried in the hand for reference.
EPOPEE: Epic poetry.
EXEGESIS: A critical exposition of a text.
FASCICLE: One section of a book that is published in installments.
FACETIAE: Humurous writings.
HAGIOGRAPHY: The writing of the lives of saints.
HEPTASTICH: A stanza or strophe consisting of seven lines.
HERMENEUTICS: Methodology of interpretation, especially of scriptural text.
JEREMIAD: A lamentation.
LUCUBRATION: A literary work, especially one of pedantic of elaborate character.
MONOGRAPH: A scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject, class of subjects, or person.
PANEGYRIC: A piece of writing praising a person or thing; a tribute.
PICARESQUE: Fiction dealing with the adventures of a rogue.
POETASTER: An inferior poet.
PROLEGOMENON: The introductory essay in a book.
RUBRIC: A heading of a chapter, section, etc.
SCHOLIAST: Annotator or commentator on the classics.
SCREED: A long and dull piece of writing.
SESQUIPEDALIAN: A writer who uses long words.
VARIORUM: With notes of various editors or commentators or with various versions of a text.
Some curious literary words
uit: Bibliotopia, or Mr. Gilbar’s book of books & catch-all of literary facts & curiosities - Steven Gilbar (samenst.)
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