Lit terms #6

simile: a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
soliloquy: an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
spiritual: of, relating to, or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things.
speaker: a person who speaks
stereotype: a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
stream of consciousness: a person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow
structure: the relationship or organization of the component parts of a work of art or literature

style: the ways that the author uses words
subordination: The use of expressions that make one element of a sentence dependent on another

surrealism: a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind

suspension of disbelief: That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith

symbol: a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.

synesthesia: the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body.

synecdoche: a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa,.

syntax: the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.

theme: the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
thesis: a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved.

tone: the author's attitude toward the reader, subject, and self
tongue in cheek: without really meaning what one is saying or writing.
tragedy: A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness

understatement: describe or represent (something) as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.

vernacular: the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.

voice: The writer's voice is the individual writing style of an author, a combination of their common usage of syntax, diction, punctuation, character development, dialogue, etc., within a given body of text (or across several works

zeitgeist: the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time.