soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage.
spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme.
speaker: a narrator, the one speaking.
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.
structure: the planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization.
subordination: the couching of less important ideas in less important structures of language.
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.
suspension of disbelief: suspend disbelief in order to enjoy something.
symbol: something which stands for something else, yet has a meaning of its own.
synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense.
synecdoche: another form of name changing, in which a part stands for the whole.
syntax: the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence.
theme: main idea of the story; its message(s).
thesis: a proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or disproved;the main idea.
tone: the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the author's perceived point of view.
tongue in cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; also called "dry" or "dead pan"
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.
understatement: opposite of hyperbole; saying less than you mean for emphasis.
vernacular: everyday speech.
voice: The textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer's or speaker's persona.
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