Simile: comparing two things using the word "like" or "as"
Soliloquy: a long speech given by a character in a play to the audience that reveals their thoughts
Spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme
Speaker: the person who is speaker; narrator
Stereotype: a fixed idea of a character/idea which does not allow for any individual prejudices
Stream of consciousness: a style of writing that portrays the inner workings of a character's mind
Structure: framework of a work of literature
Style: the distinctive way in which a writer uses language; use of diction, tone, syntax
Subordination: words, phrases, and clauses that make one element of a sentence dependent on another
Surrealism: movement that replaces conventional realism with the full expression of the unconscious mind
Suspension of disbelief: suspended not believing in order to enjoy it
Symbol: a person, place, thing or event that had meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself
Synesthesia: to present ideas, characters, or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one senses like hearing, seeing, smell, at the same time
Synecdoche: a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole
Syntax: the way an author chooses to join word into phrases, clauses, and sentences
Theme: the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work
Thesis: the sentence or group of sentences that directly express the author's opinion, purpose, or meaning
Tone: the attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience
Tongue in cheek: cleverly amusing in tone
Tragedy: any literary composition dealing with a somber theme
Understatement: the ironic minimizing of fact; presents something as less significant than it is
Vernacular: everyday language; slang
Voice: the author's style that makes his or her writing unique and conveys the author's attitude, personality, and character
Zeitgeist: the general cultural, intellectual, or spiritual climate within a nation or even a group
Soliloquy: a long speech given by a character in a play to the audience that reveals their thoughts
Spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme
Speaker: the person who is speaker; narrator
Stereotype: a fixed idea of a character/idea which does not allow for any individual prejudices
Stream of consciousness: a style of writing that portrays the inner workings of a character's mind
Structure: framework of a work of literature
Style: the distinctive way in which a writer uses language; use of diction, tone, syntax
Subordination: words, phrases, and clauses that make one element of a sentence dependent on another
Surrealism: movement that replaces conventional realism with the full expression of the unconscious mind
Suspension of disbelief: suspended not believing in order to enjoy it
Symbol: a person, place, thing or event that had meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself
Synesthesia: to present ideas, characters, or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one senses like hearing, seeing, smell, at the same time
Synecdoche: a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole
Syntax: the way an author chooses to join word into phrases, clauses, and sentences
Theme: the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work
Thesis: the sentence or group of sentences that directly express the author's opinion, purpose, or meaning
Tone: the attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience
Tongue in cheek: cleverly amusing in tone
Tragedy: any literary composition dealing with a somber theme
Understatement: the ironic minimizing of fact; presents something as less significant than it is
Vernacular: everyday language; slang
Voice: the author's style that makes his or her writing unique and conveys the author's attitude, personality, and character
Zeitgeist: the general cultural, intellectual, or spiritual climate within a nation or even a group
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