101-120 Flashcards
Sarcasm (N)
An ironic or satirical remark that seems to be praising someone or something but is really taunting or cutting
Satire (N)
A technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or society by using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule
Scan (V)
The process of analyzing a poem’s meter
Scapegoat (N)
A person or group that is made to bear the blame for others
Scene (N)
A dramatic sequence taking place within a single locale (or setting) on stage
Setting (N)
The time and place in which the story takes place
Solecism (N)
A grammatical mistake or intentional use of incorrect grammar in written language and speech
Soliloquy (N)
A popular literary device often used in drama to reveal the innermost thoughts of a character
Sonnet (N)
It means a small or little song or lyric; a poem that is 14 lines and is written in iambic pentameter
Speaker (N)
The voice behind the poem - the person we imagine to be saying the thing out loud
Stage direction (N)
Part of the script of the play that tells the actor how they are to move or to speak their lines
Stream-of-consciousness (N)
A narrative mode or device that depicts the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind
Stock character (N)
A stereotypical person whom audiences readily recognize
Structure (N)
The way the writer arranges the plot of a story
Style (N)
The literary element that describes the ways that the author uses words
Surrealism (N)
A style aimed at expressing imaginative dreams and visions free from conscious rational control
Syllepsis (N)
A rhetorical term for a kind of ellipsis in which one word (usually a verb) is understood differently in relation to two or more other words, which it modifies or governs
Ex: He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men.
Syllogism (N)
A deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and minor premise and a conclusion
Synesthesia (N)
A technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters, or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one sense, like hearing, sight, smell, and tough at a given time
Ex: “The silence was as thick as a forest.”
Syntax (N)
The choices about how words are used to form a sentence
