List 101-120

Question 1

Sarcasm

Answer 1

An ironic or satirical remark that seems to be praising someone or something but is really taunting or cutting

Question 2

Satire

Answer 2

A technique employed by writers to expose and criticize the foolishness and corruption of an individual or society by using humor, irony exaggeration, or ridicule
Ex. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Question 3

Scan

Answer 3

The process of analyzing a poem’s meter

Question 4

Scapegoat

Answer 4

A person or group that is made to bear blame for others
Ex. Jesus

Question 5

Scene

Answer 5

A dramatic sequence taking place within a single locale (or setting) on stage

Question 6

Setting

Answer 6

The time and place in which the story takes place
Ex. Hell in Dante’s Inferno

Question 7

Solecism

Answer 7

A grammatical mistake or intentional use of incorrect grammar in written language and speech

Question 8

Soliloquy

Answer 8

A popular literary device often used in drama to reveal the innermost thoughts of a character
Ex. Hamlet

Question 9

Sonnet

Answer 9

A small or little song or lyric; a poem that is 14 lines and is written in iambic pentameter
Ex. Shakespears’ Sonnet 18

Question 10

Speaker

Answer 10

The voice behind the poem - the person we imagine to be saying them out loud
Ex. Is the speaker Shakespeare himself or the imagined lover?

Question 11

Stage Direction

Answer 11

Part of the script of the play that tells the actors how they are to move or to speak their lines

Question 12

Stream-of-consciousness

Answer 12

A narrative mode of device that depicts the multitudinous thoughts and feelings that pass through the mind

Question 13

Stock Character

Answer 13

A stereotypical person whom audiences readily recognize from frequent recurrences in a particular literary tradition
Ex. Mad scientist

Question 14

Structure

Answer 14

The way the writer arranges the plot of a story

Question 15

Style

Answer 15

The literary element that describes the ways that the author uses words - the author’s word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement all work together to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text

Question 16

Surrealism

Answer 16

A style aimed at expressing imaginative dreams and visions free from conscious rational control

Question 17

Syllepsis

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Syllogism

Answer 18

A deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion
Ex. all cats are furry (Major), all furry things are nice (Minor), therefore all cats are nice (Conclusion)

Question 19

Synesthesia

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Syntax

Answer 20

The choices about how words are used to form a sentence
Ex. The boy ran hurriedly vs hurriedly, the boy ran.