Terms S Flashcards
A type of irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it.
Sarcasm
Writing that seeks to arouse a reader’s disapproval of an object by ridicule.
Satire
A system for describing the meter of a poem by identifying the number and the type(s) of feet per line.
Scansion
A six-line stanza.
Sestet
A directly expressed comparison using if/like/as
Simile
Normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem
Sonnet
Usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme.
Stanza
The management of language for a specific effect.
Strategy
The arrangement of materials within a work; the relationship of the parts of a work to the whole; the logical divisions of a work.
Structure
The mode of expression in language.
Style
Something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else.
Symbol
A form of metaphor which in mentioning a part signifies a whole.
Synecdoche
The ordering of words into patterns or sentences.
Syntax
