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| 3970987017 | stage directions | the words in the printed text of a play that inform the director, crew, actors, and readers how to stage, perform, or imagine the play; give the place and time of the action, the design of the set itself, and at times the characters' actions or tone of voice | 0 | |
| 3970987018 | stanza | a section of a poem, marked by extra line spacing before and after, that often has a single pattern of meter and/or rhyme. | 1 | |
| 3970987623 | static character | a character who does not change throughout the course of a story | 2 | |
| 3970987624 | stock character | a character who represents a familiar type that recurs frequently in literary works, especially of a particular genre (e.g., the "mad scientist" of horror fiction and film or the fool in Renaissance, especially Shakespearean, drama) | 3 | |
| 3970987636 | stream of consciousness | a type of third-person narration that replicates the thought processes of a character without much or any intervention by a narrator. The technique is closely associated with twentieth- century fiction writers of psychological realism such as Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and William Faulkner, who were all heavily influenced by early psychologists such as William James and Sigmund Freud. | 4 | |
| 3970988602 | structure | anything composed of parts arranged together in some way; an organization. | 5 | |
| 3970988603 | style | a distinctive manner of expression; each author's style is expressed through his or her diction, rhythm, imagery, and so on. | 6 | |
| 3970988604 | subgenre | A smaller division within a genre, such as gothic fiction or epic poetry. | 7 | |
| 3970988605 | subjectivity | how someone's judgment is shaped by personal opinions and feelings instead of outside influences; partially responsible for why one person loves an abstract painting while another person hates it. | 8 | |
| 3970989268 | subplot | a secondary plot in a work of fiction or drama | 9 | |
| 3970989269 | suspense | a quality in a work of fiction that arouses excited expectation or uncertainty about what may happen | 10 | |
| 3970989274 | suspension of disbelief | a willingness to suspend one's critical faculties and believe the unbelievable; sacrifice of realism and logic for the sake of enjoyment. coined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. | 11 | |
| 3970989877 | syllogism | an instance of a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn (whether validly or not) from two given or assumed propositions (premises), each of which shares a term with the conclusion, and shares a common or middle term not present in the conclusion (e.g., all dogs are animals; all animals have four legs; therefore all dogs have four legs ). | 12 | |
| 3970989878 | symbol | a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract | 13 | |
| 3970989879 | symbolic poem | a poem in which the use of symbols is so pervasive and internally consistent that the reference to the outside world being symbolized becomes secondary. William Blake's "The Sick Rose" is an example. | 14 | |
| 3970990920 | synecdoche | a type of metonymy in which the part is used to name or stand in for the whole, as when we refer to manual laborers as hands or say wheels to mean a car. | 15 | |
| 3970991660 | synesthesia | a technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one senses like hearing, seeing, smell etc. at a given time. | 16 | |
| 3970991661 | syntax | word order; the way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences. | 17 | |
| 3970991662 | tale | a brief narrative with a simple plot and characters, an ancient and originally oral form of storytelling. Unlike fables, THIS TYPE OF NARRATIVE typically doesn't convey or state a simple or single moral | 18 | |
| 3970992094 | temporal setting | the time in which a work of fiction,poetry, or drama unfolds | 19 | |
| 3970992095 | tercet | a set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together | 20 | |
| 3970992096 | terza rima | literally, "third rhyme" (Italian); a verse form consisting of three- line stanzas in which the second line of each stanza rhymes with the first and third of the next. | 21 | |
| 3970992757 | tetrameter | a line of poetry with four feet: "The Grass | divides | as with | a comb" (Dickinson). | 22 | |
| 3970992758 | theatrical property | an object used on stage or on screen by actors during a performance or screen production; anything movable or portable on a stage or a set, distinct from the actors, scenery, costumes and electrical equipment | 23 | |
| 3970992759 | theme | broadly and commonly, a topic explored in a literary work (e.g., "the value of all life"); (2) more narrowly, the insight about a topic communicated in a work | 24 | |
| 3970992760 | thesis | the central debatable claim articulated, supported, and developed in an essay or other work of expository prose | 25 | |
| 3970993342 | third-person narrator | a narrator who uses third-person pronouns such as she, he, they, it, and so on; almost always external; said to be omniscient (literally, "all-knowing") when they describe the inner thoughts and feelings of multiple characters; they are said to be limited when they relate the thoughts, feelings, and perceptions of only one character (the central consciousness). | 26 | |
| 3970993343 | thrust stage | a stage design that allows the audience to sit around three sides of the major acting area |  | 27 |
| 3970993344 | time | in literature, at least four potentially quite different frames OF THIS are at issue: (1) author ---, when the author originally created or published a literary text; (2) narrator ----, when the narrator in a work of fiction supposedly narrated the story; (3) plot ----, when the action depicted in the work supposedly took place (in other words, the work's temporal setting); and (4) reader (or audience) ----, when an actual reader reads the work or an actual audience sees it performed. | 28 | |
| 3970993345 | tone | the attitude a literary work takes toward its subject, especially the way this attitude is revealed through diction | 29 | |
| 3970993751 | traditional symbol | a type of symbol that recurs frequently in (and beyond) literature and is thus immediately recognizable to those who belong to a given culture. In Western literature and culture, for example, the rose and snake symbolizes love and evil, respectively. | 30 | |
| 3970993752 | tragedy | a work, especially of drama, in which a character (traditionally a good and noble person of high rank) is brought to a disastrous end in his or her confrontation with a superior force (fortune, the gods, human nature, universal values), but also comes to understand the meaning of his or her deeds and to accept an appropriate punishment. Often the protagonist's downfall is a direct result of a fatal fl aw in his or her character | 31 | |
| 3970993753 | tragic flaw | a trait in a character leading to his downfall and the character is often the hero of the literary piece. This trait could be the lack of self-knowledge, lack of judgment and often it is hubris (pride). | 32 | |
| 3970994175 | tragic hero | a literary character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction | 33 | |
| 3970994470 | Transcendental Movement | a philosophical movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the eastern region of the United States. The movement was a reaction to or protest against the general state of intellectualism and spirituality; centered around Ralph Waldo Emerson and included Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and more | 34 | |
| 3970994471 | trimeter | a line of poetry with three feet: "Little | lamb, who | made thee?" (Blake) | 35 | |
| 3970994912 | trochaic | a metrical form in which the basic foot is a trochee—a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one ("Hómer"). | 36 | |
| 3971048635 | trochee | a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one ("Hómer"). | 37 | |
| 3970994913 | trope | any word or phrase that creates a "figure" in the mind of the reader by effecting an obvious change in the usual meaning or order of words, by comparing or identifying one thing with another | 38 | |
| 3970994914 | turning point | the third part of plot, the point at which the action stops rising and begins falling or reversing | 39 | |
| 3970995660 | underplot | a particular type of subplot, especially in Shakespeare's plays, that is a parodic or highly romantic version of the main plot. A good example would be the subplot in A Midsummer Night's Dream that centers on the character Bottom. | 40 |
