| A | B |
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| simple sentence | a simple sentence contains one subject and one verb |
| situational irony | irony which arises from situations |
| soliloquy | a long speech made by a character who is alone on the stage in which he reveals his innermost thoughts & feelings |
| sonnet | 14 lines of iambic pentameter with a set rhyme scheme |
| spondee | two stressed syllables. |
| stichomythia | dialogue in which endings and beginning of each line echo each other taking on new meaning in each line. |
| stream of consciousness | narrative technique which presents thoughts as if they were coming directly from a character’s mind |
| structure | the planned framework for a piece of literature |
| style | a writer’s typical way of expressing him- or herself |
| syllogism | an argument or form of reasoning in which two statements or premises are made and a logical conclusion drawn from them |
| symbol | anything that stands for or represents anything else |
| synecdoche | figurative language in which part stands for the whole |
| synthetic imagery | detail that moves from the stimulation of one sense to a response by another sense, as a certain odor induces the visualization of a certain color. Here the act of reading, a visual stimulus, produces sound |
| syntax | the arrangement of words in a sentence |
| tetrameter | a verse written in four-foot lines |
| theme | what the author is saying about the subjects in his work. It is not the same as the subject which can be expressed in one or two words: courage, survival. |
| tone | a writer’s attitude toward his subject conveyed through diction and detail. |
| tragedy | depicts the downfall or destruction of a character |
| tragic flaw | a tragic flaw or error in judgment |
| trimeter | a verse written in three-foot lines |
| trite | is applied to something, especially an expression or idea which through repeated use or application has lost its original freshness |
| trochaic | a foot in poetry with one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable |
| trope | another name for figurative language |
