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| speaker | The narrator of a poem |
| stage | The area where a play is performed |
| stage directions | Instructions to the actors about how to move and say their lines |
| stance | The author's position on a topic: how he or she feels about it |
| stanza | A group of lines in a poem |
| stated | Said or written |
| story map | A graphic organizer that helps identify important parts of a story |
| strategy | A plan for how to complete a task |
| subheading | A smaller heading that gives the title of one section of a selection |
| subtitle | Words underneath the title of a selection that give more information |
| suffix | A group of letters added to the end of a word that change the word's meaning |
| summarize | Re-tell the story by listing the most important events: "make a long story short" |
| summary | A brief re-telling of the most important events in a story |
| supporting detail | A fact or idea that helps to prove that the main idea is correct |
| symbol | Something that stands for something else |
| theater | The building in which a play is performed |
| theme | The moral or lesson about life that a story teaches |
| thesaurus | A book of words and their synonyms |
| third person | A narrator who is not a character in the story tells the story |
| title | The name of a selection |
