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Terms for subject Literature (1061 entries)

style	The distinguishing way writers employ language and their words choice to accomplish certain effects. A significant ingredient of interpreting and understanding fiction is paying attention to the way the author uses words. Syntax, structure and narrative technique are also important.
sub-plot	a second plot in a play or narrative that adds to or parallels the main plot.
subject matter	The issue or topic that is the focus of a discussion or text.
Subject Occasion Audience Purpose Speaker	SOAPS
subversion	when a concept or text aims to undermine an established idea.
Sun Life Speakers Corner Toastmasters Club	SLCC
suspense	A sentiment that is often created within plays and stories to engage the reader. Suspense is the eagerness to know what will happen.
suspension of disbelief	An explanation for incredible or unrealistic elements in a work of literature. First suggested by Coleridge as a way of accepting the implausible in a story.
Sustaining Membership Enrollment	SME
syllabary	In writing, a set of symbols which roughly equate to a syllable. This is seen in a language such as Chinese.
syllables	The smallest unit of speech spoken with one single sound.
Sylvia Plath	An American poet and writer. She is the author of The Bell Jar. She was married to Ted Hughes and committed suicide.
symbol	A word, place, character, or object that signifies something beyond what it is on the surface, and represents a broader concept. Symbols can be contextual, cultural, or personal.
symbolic character	Characters whose chief literary purpose is symbolic, although the character may have common or realistic qualities.
symbolism	The use of characters, diction, places, or objects that mean something beyond their literal level meaning. Often the symbol is indefinite in meaning. When many objects or characters each appear to have a specific symbolic meaning, the story is usually an allegory.
symploce	A figure of speech used rhetorically for effect.
synecdoche	A figure of speech where an example becomes a symbol for a whole or larger classification.
syntax	The sentence arrangement of a language or standard word order. Standard English syntax operates on a Subject-Verb-Object pattern; however poets sometimes adjust syntax to accomplish poetic effects. Deliberately unsettling word sequence for a poetic effect is called anastrophe.
Table Topics	TT
Table Topics Evaluator	TTE