Simile: A figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparison.
Soliloquy: An extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage.
Spiritual: A folk song, usually on a religious theme.
Speaker: A narrator, the one speaking.
Stereotype: Cliché; a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula story.
Stream of Consciousness: The style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character’s thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images, as the character experiences them.
Structure: The planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization.
Style: The manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking.
Subordination: The couching of less important ideas in less important structures of language.
Surrealism: A style in literature and painting that stresses the subconscious or the nonrational aspects of man’s existence characterized by the juxtaposition of the bizarre and the banal.
Suspension of Disbelief: Suspend not believing in order to enjoy it.
Symbol: Something which stands for something else, yet has a meaning of its own.
Synesthesia: The use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense.
Synecdoche: Another form of name changing, in which a part stands for the whole.
Syntax: The arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence.
Theme: Main idea of the story; its message(s).
Thesis: A proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or disproved; the main idea.
Tone: The devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the author’s perceived point of view.
Tongue in Cheek: A type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; a.k.a. “dry” or “dead pan.”
Tragedy: In literature: any composition with a somber theme carried to a disastrous conclusion; a fatal event; protagonist usually is heroic but tragically (fatally) flawed.
Understatement: Opposite of hyperbole; saying less than you mean for emphasis.
Vernacular: Everyday speech.
Voice: The textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer’s or speaker’s persona.
Zeitgeist: The feeling of a particular era in history.
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