1.
Stage Directions: give information about costumes, lighting, scenery, properties, the setting, and the characters; movements and ways of speaking.
ex: (The curtain opens)
2.
Stanza: a group of lines in a poem that are considered to be a unit
ex: 1. Couplet: a two-line _______
2. Tercet: a three-line ______
3. Quatrain: a four-line ______
4. Cinquain: a five-line ______
5. Sestet: a six-line _____
6. Heptastich: a seven-line ________
7. Octave: an eight-line ________
3.
Static Character: a one who does not change in the course of a work
4.
Stream of Consciousness: a narrative technique that presents thoughts as if they were coming directly from a character's mind
ex: "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter uses technique to capture Granny's dying thoughts and feelings.
5.
Style: includes word choice, tone, degree of formality, figurative language, rhythm, grammatical structure, sentence length, organization-in short, every feature of a writer's use of language.
ex: Ernest Hemingway us noted for a simple prose _____ that contrasts with Thomas Paine's aphoristic style and with N. Scott Momaday's reflective ____.
6.
Suspense: a feeling of growing uncertainty about the outcome of events
ex: ______builds until the climax of the plot, at which point the ____ reaches its peak.
7.
Symbol: anything that stands for or represents something else
ex: Hawthorne's black veil and Meliville's white whale
8.
Symbolism: a literary movement during the nineteenth century that influenced poets, including the imagist
ex: They turned away from everyday realistic details to express emotions by using a pattern of symbols.
9.
Theme: a central message or insight into life revealed by a literary work
ex: "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty does not directly say that Phoenix Jackson's difficult journey shoes the power of love, but readers learn this in directly by the end of the story.
10.
Tone: writer's attitude towards his or her subject, charaters, or audience
ex: William Faulkener's ____ in his "Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech" is earnest and serious, where as James Thurber's ____ is "The Night the Ghost got In" is humourous and ironic.
11.
Transcendentalism: an American literary and philosophical movement of the nineteenth century
ex: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Bronson Alcott, W.H. Channing, Margaret Fuller, and Elizabeth Peabody.
