1) Simile: a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparison.
2) Soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage.
3) Spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme
4) Speaker: a narrator, the one speaking.
4) Stereotype: cliché; a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula story.
5) 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.
6) Structure: the planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization.
7) Style: The manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking.
8) Subordination: the couching of less important ideas in less important structures of language.
8) Surrealism: a style in literature and painting that stresses the subconscious or the irrational aspects of man's existence characterized by the juxtaposition of the bizarre and the banal.
9) Suspension of disbelief: suspend disbelief in order to enjoy something.
10) Symbol: something which stands for something else, yet has a meaning of its own.
11) Synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense.
12) Synecdoche: another form of name changing, in which a part stands for the whole.
13) Syntax: the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence.
14) Theme: main idea of the story; its message(s).
15) Thesis: a proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or disproved; the main idea.
16) Tone: the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the author's perceived point of view.
17) Tongue in Cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; also called "dry" or "dead pan"
18) 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.
19) Understatement: opposite of hyperbole; saying less than you mean for emphasis.
20) Vernacular: everyday speech.
21) Voice: The textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer's or speaker's pesona.
22) Zeitgeist: the feeling of a particular era in history.
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