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6709306254Satireliterary work that holds up human failings to ridicule and censure0
6709308884Scansionthe analysis of verse to show its meter1
6709308887Settingtime and place of the action in a story poem or play2
6709313357Shakespearean Sonnetalso called an english sonnet a sonnet from that divides the poem into three units of four lines each3
6709313358Shaped Versepoetry that is shaped to look like an object4
6709317841Similea direct explicit comparison of one thing to another like or as5
6709320302Soliloquymonologue in which the character in a play is alone and speaking only to him or herself6
6709327950Speakerthe person not necessarily the author who is the voice of a poem7
6709327951Stanzasection of a poem demarcated by extra line spacing8
6709330980Sterotypecharacterization based on conscious or unconscious assumptions that some one aspect, gender, age, ethic or national identity, religion, occupation, marital status9
6709330981Stock Characterone who appears in a number of stories or plays such as the cruel step mother.10
6709333688Structurethe organization or arrangement of the various elements in a work.11
6709333689Styledistinctive manor of expression each author's style is expressed through his or her diction rhythm imagery.12
6709335281Symbolisma person place thing event or pattern in a literary work that designates itself and at the same time figuratively represents or stands for something else.13
6709336408Synecdochea part is used to signify a whole as in all hands on deck! and The Rustler bragged he'd absconded with five hundred head of long horns.14

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