102. Refrain: a phrase or verse recurring
at intervals in a poem or song; chorus.
103. Requiem: any chant, dirge, hymn, or
musical service for the dead.
104. Resolution: point in a literary work at which the
chief dramatic complication is worked out; denouement.
105. Restatement: idea repeated for
emphasis.
106. Rhetoric: use of language, both written and verbal
in order to persuade.
107. Rhetorical Question: question suggesting its own
answer or not requiring an answer; used in argument or
persuasion.
108. Rising Action: plot build up, caused by conflict
and complications, advancement towards climax.
109. Romanticism: movement in western
culture beginning in the eighteenth and peaking in the nineteenth century as a
revolt against Classicism; imagination was valued over reason and
fact.
110. Satire: ridicules or condemns the
weakness and wrong doings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in
general.
111. Scansion: the analysis of verse in terms of
meter.
112. Setting: the time and place in which events in a
short story, novel, play, or narrative poem occur.
113. Simile: a figure of speech comparing
two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of
comparison.
114. Soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in a drama,
delivered by a character alone on stage.
115. Spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious
theme.
116. Speaker: a narrator, the one
speaking.
117. Stereotype: cliché; a simplified, standardized
conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula
story.
118. Stream of Consciousness: the style of writing that
attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character’s thoughts, feelings,
reflections, memories, and mental images, as the character experiences
them.
119. Structure: the planned framework of a literary
selection; its apparent organization.
120. Style: the manner of putting
thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or
speaking.
121. Subordination: the couching of less important
ideas in less important structures of
language.
122. Surrealism: a style in literature and painting
that stresses the subconscious or the nonrational aspects of man’s existence
characterized by the juxtaposition of the bizarre and the
banal.
123. Suspension of Disbelief: suspend not believing in
order to enjoy it.
124. Symbol: something which stands for something else,
yet has a meaning of its own.
125. Synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the
experience of another sense.
126. Synecdoche: another form of name changing, in
which a part stands for the whole.
127. Syntax: the arrangement and grammatical relations
of words in a sentence.
128. Theme: main idea of the story; its
message(s).
129. Thesis: a proposition for consideration,
especially one to be discussed and proved
or disproved; the main idea.
130. Tone: the devices used to create the mood and
atmosphere of a literary work; the
author’s perceived point of view.
131. Tongue in Cheek: a type of humor in which the
speaker feigns seriousness; a.k.a. “dry” or “dead pan”
132. Tragedy: in literature: any composition with a
somber theme carried to a disastrous conclusion; a fatal event; protagonist
usually is heroic but tragically (fatally) flawed
133. Understatement: opposite of hyperbole; saying less
than you mean for emphasis
134. Vernacular: everyday speech
135. Voice: The textual features, such as
diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer’s or speaker’s
pesona.
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