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Literary Terms #3B
"DMS" Literary Terms #3B
terms | definitions |
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scanning | reader searches quickly for a specific word, phrase, or piece of information |
setting | time and place of a story |
short story | brief account in prose of fictional events |
simile | comparing two seemingly unalike items using the words "like" or "as" (type of figurative language) |
skimming | preview a piece of work by glancing quickly through it (a method of reading) |
stage directions | In drama (plays) these are the writer's instructions for performing the work and a description of characters, ations, and settings. |
staging | acting, costumes, sets, lighting, sound effects and other special effects that bring a play to life. |
stanza | A group of lines forming a unit in a poem |
stereotype | A kind of charcter who has only a few personality traits and is more a category than a real, individualized person (a popular belief about specific social groups or types of individuals) |
suspense | The reader's interest in how the story will end |
theme | central idea of a literary work, often a lesson learned about life |
thesis statement | sentence or group of sentences expressing the central idea in a work of nonfiction |
title | name of a work of literature |
topic sentence | a sentence at the start of paragraph of nonfiction writing that expresses the main idea of that paragraph |