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| SOLILOQUY | a speech in a play which is used to reveal the character's inner thoughts to the audience. |
| SONNET | a 14-line poem with a prescribed rhyme scheme in iambic pentameter. |
| SPONDEE | a poetic foot consisting of two accented syllables. |
| STANZA | a unit of a poem, similar in rhyme, meter, and length to other units in the poem. |
| STYLE | the unique way an author presents his ideas. |
| SUBPLOT | a secondary plot that explores ideas different from the main storyline. |
| SUBTEXT | implied meaning of a work or section of a work. |
| TERCET | a three-line stanza. |
| TRAGIC HERO | according to Aristotle, a basically good person of noble birth or exalted position who has a fatal flaw or commits an error in judgment which leads to his downfall. |
| TROCHEE | A single metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable |
| UNDERSTATEMENT | the opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended. |
| VILLANELLE | a highly structured poetic form that comprises six stanzas: five tercets and a quatrain. The poem repeats the first and third lines throughout. |
