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| 7358389733 | Short Story | - like a novel - details are made to get one effect - plot moves fast - significant characters revealed through central incident | 0 | |
| 7358389734 | Simile | - comparison using like or as - compares two unlike things | 1 | |
| 7358389735 | Slang | - fleeting expression - often particular to a certain group/region | 2 | |
| 7358389736 | Soliloquy | - long speech made by a character - alone on stage - reveals thoughts/feelings | 3 | |
| 7358389737 | Sonnet | - 3 quatrains - Final couplet - Meter is iambic pentameter - Set rhyme scheme - Change of rhyme and scheme - Variation of theme - Ends with epigrammatic couplet | 4 | |
| 7358389738 | Spenserian Sonnet | - 9 lines - first 8 lines, iambic pentameter - last line, iambic hexameter | 5 | |
| 7358389739 | Sound Device | assonance, alliteration, consonance, onomatopoeia | 6 | |
| 7358389740 | Spondee | 2 stressed syllables | 7 | |
| 7358389741 | Stanza | related group of lines in a poem, equivalent to a paragraph in prose | 8 | |
| 7358389742 | Stanza Forms | names given to describe the number of lines in a stanzaic unit, such as: couplet (2), tercet(3), quatrain (4), quintet (5), sestet (6), septet (7) and octave (8). Some stanzas follow a set rhyme scheme and meter in addition to the number of lines and are given specific names | 9 | |
| 7358389743 | Static Character | character who is the same sort of person at the end of a story as s/he was at the beginning. | 10 | |
| 7358389744 | Statistics of Small Numbers | close relative of observational selection e.g., "They say 1 out of every 5 people is Chinese. How is this possible? I know hundreds of people, and none of them is Chinese" | 11 | |
| 7358389745 | Stereotype | characterization based on conscious or unconscious assumptions that one aspect (such as gender, age, ethnicity, religion, race) determines what humans are like and so is accompanied by certain traits,actions, and even value. | 12 | |
| 7358389746 | Stock Character | stereotyped character: one whose nature is familiar from prototypes in previous fiction. | 13 | |
| 7358389747 | Stream of Consciousness | narrative technique which presents thoughts as if they were coming directly from a character's mind | 14 | |
| 7358389748 | Stress | saying certain syllables or words in a line with more emphasis or volume. | 15 | |
| 7358389749 | Structure | planned framework for a piece of literature | 16 | |
| 7358389750 | Style | writer's typical way of expressing him- or herself | 17 | |
| 7358389751 | Subtext | a term denoting what a character means by what (s)he says when there is a disparity between diction and intended meaning. In irony a character may say one thing and mean something entirely different. The real meaning of the speech is the subtext. | 18 | |
| 7358389752 | Syllogism gism | underlying structure of deductive reasoning, having a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion based on logic. Syllogisms are either valid or invalid. | 19 | |
| 7358389753 | Symbol | anything that stands for or represents anything else. | 20 | |
| 7358389754 | Symbolism | using an image to represent an idea. Ex. Storms often symbolize impending disaster | 21 | |
| 7358389755 | Syncedoche | figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole or the whole for a part, as wheels for automobile or society for high society (see metonymy ). | 22 | |
| 7358389756 | Synthesia | perception or description of one kind of sense impression in words normally used to describe a different sense, like a "sweet voice" or a "velvety smile." It can be very effective for creating vivid imagery.One sensory experience described in terms of another sensory experience. Emily Dickinson, in "I Heard a Fly Buzz-When I Died," uses a color to describe a sound, the buzz of a fly:with blue, uncertain stumbling buzz | 23 | |
| 7358389757 | Syntax | arrangement of words in a sentence, the grammar of a sentence | 24 | |
| 7358389758 | Tetrameter | - poetic line with 4 metrical feet (therefore, 8 or 12 syllables in the line) | 25 | |
| 7358389759 | Tercet | three-line stanza in poetry | 26 | |
| 7358389760 | Theater of the Asburd | play written to show the absurdity of life by having absurd situations | 27 | |
| 7358389761 | Theme | an ingredient of a literary work which gives the work unity. The theme provides an answer to the question, "What is the work about?" Each literary work carries its own theme(s). Unlike plot, which deals with the action of a work, theme concerns itself with a work's message or contains the general idea of a work and is worded in a complete sentence. | 28 | |
| 7358389762 | Third Person | not a character in the story; refers to the story's characters as"he" and "she" but does not reveal thoughts | 29 | |
| 7358389763 | Limited Narrator | can only tell what one person is thinking or feeling. | 30 | |
| 7358389764 | Omniscient Narrator | can tell what all characters are thinking and feelings | 31 | |
| 7358389765 | Tone | expresses the author's attitude toward his or her subject. Since there are as many tones in literature as there are tones of voice in real relationships, the tone of a literary work may be one of anger or approval, pride or piety; the entire gamut of attitudes toward life's phenomena. | 32 | |
| 7358389766 | Tragedy | depicts the downfall or destruction of a character | 33 | |
| 7358389767 | Tragic Flaw | tragic flaw or error in judgment | 34 | |
| 7358389768 | Trimeter | poetic line with three metrical feet (therefore, 6 or 9 syllables) | 35 | |
| 7358389769 | Trochaic | - poetic line created with 1 accented, 1 unaccented syllable | 36 | |
| 7358389770 | Trope | another name for figurative language | 37 | |
| 7358389771 | Understatement | statement in which the literal sense of what is said falls short of the magnitude of what is being talked about (a litote is a type of understatement. Understatement: where we deliberately say less than we mean, and let the audience understand the real meaning--Ex. A British 747 pilot lost power to all 4 engines during a flight and quite calmly radioed this message into the control tower: "Spot of bother, but we seem to have lost all 4 engines on the aircraft..." | 38 | |
| 7358389772 | Verbal Irony | kind of irony in which words are used to suggest the opposite of their actual meaning | 39 | |
| 7358389773 | Verisimilitude | semblance of truth; the degree to which a writer creates the appearance of truth | 40 | |
| 7358389774 | Villanelle | poem with five triplets and a final quatrain; only two rhyme sounds are permitted in the entire poem, and the first and third lines of the first stanza are repeated, alternately, as the third line of subsequent stanzas until the last, when they appear as the last two lines of the poem. | 41 | |
| 7358389775 | Voice | speaker in a piece of literature | 42 | |
| 7358389776 | Zeugma | any of several similar rhetorical devices, all involving a grammatically correct linkage (or yoking together) of two or more parts of speech by another part of speech. Thus examples of zeugmatic usage would include one subject with two (or more) verbs, a verb with two (or more) direct objects, two (or more) subjects with one verb, and so forth. The main benefit of the linking is that it shows relationships between ideas and actions more clearly. In one form (prozeugma), the yoking word precedes the words yoked. Pride oppresseth humility; hatred love; cruelty compassion. | 43 |
