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| Satire | A literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness. |
| Self-Monitor | A comprehension strategy; knowing or recognizing when what one is reading or writing is not making sense. |
| Semantics | The study of meaning in language. |
| Setting | The time and place in which a story unfolds. |
| Simile | A comparison of two unlike things in which a word of comparison (like or as) is used (e.g., She eats like a bird.). |
| Sonnet | A lyric poem of fourteen lines whose rhyme scheme is fixed. The rhyme scheme in the Italian sonnets of Petrarch is abbaabba cdecde. The Petrarchian sonnet has two divisions: the first is of eight lines (the octave), and the second is of six lines (the sestet). The rhyme scheme of the English, or Shakespearean sonnet is abab cdcd efef gg. |
| Source - Primary | Text and/or artifacts that tell or show a first-hand account of an event; original works used when researching (e.g. letters, journals). |
| Source - Secondary | Text and/or artifacts used when researching that are derived from something original (e.g. biographies, magazine articles, research papers). |
| Story Maps | A visual representation of a story that provides an overview including characters, setting, the problem, and resolution or ending. |
| Subject Area | An organized body of knowledge; a discipline; a content area. |
| Suffix | Suffixes are groups of letters placed after a word to modify its meaning or change it into a different word group, from an adjective to an adverb, etc. |
| Summarize | To capture all the most important parts of the original text (paragraph, story, poem), but express them in a much shorter space, and - as far much as possible - in the readers own words. |
| Style | How an author writes; an author’s use of language; its effects and appropriateness to the author’s intent and theme. |
| Symbolism | A device in literature where an object represents an idea. |
| Synonym | One of two or more words in a language that have highly similar meanings (e.g., sorrow, grief, sadness). |
| Syntax | The pattern or structure of word order in sentences, clauses and phrases. |
