以下為西概轉考中重要之術語
通常考2~8分的簡介
詳細說明可找文學的handbook或是吳老師的掃描

allegory
blank verse
carpe diem
catharsis
chanson de geste
comedy
comic relief
courtly love
deus ex machina
Dithyramb
drama
dramatic irony
Electra complex
epic conventions
fable
fabliau
flashback
foreshadowing
dramatic structure
hamartia
epithet
simile
hubris
in medias res
invocation
irony
romance
metaphor
meter
myth
Oedipus complex
ottava rima
parable
Petrarchan sonnet
plot
poetic justice
poetry
point of view
Socratic method
sonnet
terza rima
three unities
trilogy