6709306254 | Satire | literary work that holds up human failings to ridicule and censure | 0 | |
6709308884 | Scansion | the analysis of verse to show its meter | 1 | |
6709308887 | Setting | time and place of the action in a story poem or play | 2 | |
6709313357 | Shakespearean Sonnet | also called an english sonnet a sonnet from that divides the poem into three units of four lines each | 3 | |
6709313358 | Shaped Verse | poetry that is shaped to look like an object | 4 | |
6709317841 | Simile | a direct explicit comparison of one thing to another like or as | 5 | |
6709320302 | Soliloquy | monologue in which the character in a play is alone and speaking only to him or herself | 6 | |
6709327950 | Speaker | the person not necessarily the author who is the voice of a poem | 7 | |
6709327951 | Stanza | section of a poem demarcated by extra line spacing | 8 | |
6709330980 | Sterotype | characterization based on conscious or unconscious assumptions that some one aspect, gender, age, ethic or national identity, religion, occupation, marital status | 9 | |
6709330981 | Stock Character | one who appears in a number of stories or plays such as the cruel step mother. | 10 | |
6709333688 | Structure | the organization or arrangement of the various elements in a work. | 11 | |
6709333689 | Style | distinctive manor of expression each author's style is expressed through his or her diction rhythm imagery. | 12 | |
6709335281 | Symbolism | a 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 | |
6709336408 | Synecdoche | a 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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