2. Soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in 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
5. Stereotype: cliche, a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula story
6. 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
7. Structure: the planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization
8. Style: the manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking
9. Subordination: the couching of less important ideas in less important structures of language
10. Surrealism: style in literature and painting that stresses the subconscious or irrational aspects of man's existence characterized by the juxtaposition of the bizarre
11. Suspension of disbelief: suspend not believing in order to enjoy it
12. Symbol: something which stands for something else, yet has its own meaning
13. Synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense
14. Synecdoche: another form of name changing where a part stands for the whole
15. Syntax: the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence
16. Theme: main idea of the story; its message
17. Thesis: proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed or (dis)proved; the main idea
18. Tone: devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the author's perceived point of view
19. Tongue in cheek: type of humor where the speaker feigns seriousness; aka "dry"
20. Tragedy: in literature: any composition with a somber theme carried to a disastrous conclusion; a fatal event; protagonist usually is heroic but tragically flawed
21. Understatement: the opposite of hyperbole; saying less than what you mean for emphasis
22. Vernacular: everyday speech
23. Voice: textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer's or speaker's persona
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