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Terms for subject Literature (1061 entries)

saga	Lengthy Scandinavian and Icelandic prose narratives about famous historical heroes, notable families, or the adventures of kings and warriors.
Salman Rushdie	Born on 19 June 1947, Rushdie is a British-Indian writer who is renowned for his novels that incorporate magic realism. His work is often set partly in the India, Pakistan or Kashmir. Notable works by Rushdie include The Satanic Verses and Midnight’s Children. See post-colonialism.
Samuel Beckett	A significant contributor to the Theatre of the Absurd Beckett was an Irish writer, playwright and poet. He is also well known for his bleak viewpoint. In 1969 Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in 1989 (born 1906)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Born in England in 1772, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an influential Romantic poet. He is well regarded for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan.
sarcasm	A type of verbal irony, where one says one thing but means another, often for the purpose of comedy.
satire	An attack on any idiocy or vice in the form of scathing humor, or a critique of what the author sees as dangerous religious, political, moral, or social standards. Satire is not solely written for entertainment purposes, but generally has an aim or agenda to present. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is an example of a satire.
satirical comedy	A type of comedy that intends to underline the vices of society. Examples of this form include Sheridan'sThe School for Scandal and Jonson's The Alchemist.
Saul Bellow	A Canadian and American writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature (in 1976) and the Pulitzer prize.
scansion	An analysis of the beat or rhythm of a poem.
scene	An episode or sequence that takes place within a single setting on stage. Often scenes act as the subdivision of an act within a play.
scenery	The visual environment fashioned onstage using a backdrop and props. The role of scenery is to imply a specific setting.
schwa	A neutral single vowel sound representing the unstressed vowel in English.
science fiction	A genre of literature that features an alternative society that is founded on the imagined technology of the future. The genre stretches the imagination by rooting the fantasy of the future in recognizable elements of modern life. This type of fantasy literature, typically takes the form of a short story or novel.
scriptorium	A location often in a church or monastery where manuscripts are studied and stored.
SEC/TREAS	Secretary/ Treasurer
Second Vice President	2VP
second-person point of view	This refers to the narrative perspective of a text. The story is told to another character, using the word 'you'.
Anglo-Saxon period	see Old English Period.
authorial attitude	see authorial intention.
slant rhyme	see inexact-rhyme.