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13th Set LC Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| square poem | A poem with a certain number of syllables per line and the same number of lines in a stanza. |
| stanza | A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse. |
| static character | A character who changes little if at all. |
| stichomythia | Dialogue in which two characters speak alternate lines of verse, used as a stylistic device in ancient Greek drama. |
| stoicism | The philosophy of the Stoics who believed that people should not try to feel joy or sadness (exalts endurance and self sufficiency). |
| Storm and Stress | An 18th century german movement. |
| stress | The emphasis given a spoken syllable. |
| structuralism | An intellectual movement utilizing the methods of structural linguistics and structural anthropology. |
| Sturm and Drang | A proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music that occurred between the late 1760s and early 1780s. |
| successive patterning | An arrangement by succession, as in a rhyme scheme of aabb and so forth. |
| surrealism | A movement in art emphasizing the expression of the imagination as realized in dreams and presented without conscious control. |
| syllabism | Paul Fussell's term for "the theory of the poetic line which takes the number of syllables in the line to be its primary structural basis." In England, Edmund Waller is the poet who established regularity of syllables; John Dryden perfected it. |
| syllable | A linguistic sound produced in a single effort of articulation. |
| syllepsis | A construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.") |
| symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else, esp. a material object representing something abstract. |
| symbolic | Serving as a visible symbol for something abstract. |
| symploce | A figure of speech combining Anaphora and Epistrophe, resulting in the repetition of a word or a phrase at the beginning of successive clauses, along with the repetition of another or the same word or phrase at the end of these successive clauses. |
| synaeresis | Making two syllables into one, especially by compressing two vowels. |
| synæsthesia | A perceptual experience in which stimulation of one sense produces additional unusual experiences in another sense. |
| syncopation | A musical term used for the effect produced by temporarily displacing or shifting the regular beat. |
| syncope | A cutting of words through the omission of a letter or a syllable. |
| synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole, the whole for a part, the specific for the general, the general for the specific, or the material for the thing made from it. |
| synopsis | A summary of the main points of a composition so made as to show relation of parts to the whole. |
| syzygy | In classical prosody, a term for two coupled feet serving as a unit. Refers to the use of consonant sounds at the end of one word and at the beginning of another that can be spoken together easily and harmoniously. |
| tableau | An interlude in which the actors freeze in position and then resume action as before or hold their positions until the curtain falls. |
| tanka | A Japanese poem of five lines, the first and third composed of five syllables and the rest of seven. |
| tautology | Repetition of an idea in a different word, phrase, or sentence. |
| telestich | An acrostic in which the final letters form a word. |
| Tercet | A stanza of three lines in which each line ends with the same rhyme. |
| terza | A verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc. |
| terza rima | A three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc. |
| tetralogy | Four works constituting a group. |
| tetrameter | A line consisting of four feet. |
| Theater of Cruelty | The theater becomes a ceremonial act of magic purgation. Human beings' inescapable enslavement to things and to circumstance. |
| Theater of the Absurd | Plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life, usually to show that modern life is pointless. |
| theme | Central idea of a work of literature. |
| thesis | An attitude or position on a problem taken by a writer or a speaker with the purpose of proving or supporting it. |
| threnody | A song of death; a dirge. |
| tmesis | Literally "cutting," it is the separation into two parts of a word usually written as one. |
| tone | A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels. |
| topical allusion | A reference to a current event during the time the work was being produced. |
| tragedy of blood | An intensified form of the Revenge Tragedy popular on the Elizabethan stage. It works out the theme of revenge and retribution through murder, assassination, mutilation, and carnage. |
| tragic irony | That form of DRAMATIC IRONY in which a character uses words that mean one thing to the speaker and another to those better acquainted with the real situation, especially when the character is about to become a tragic victim of fate. |
| Tragicomedy | A play that employs a plot suitable to tragedy but ends happily, like a comedy. |
| Transcendental Club | Informal organization of leading transcendentalists living in and around Boston. After their first meeting in 1836 at the home of George Ripely, they met at Ralph Waldo Emerson's home in Concord and called themselves "They Symposium" and the "Hedge Club." |
| transcendentalism | A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1830's and 1840's, in which each person has direct communication with God and Nature, and there is no need for organized churches. |
| transferred epithet | An adjective used to limit a noun that it really does not logically modify. |
| transliteration | A character-by-character transfer of a word from one alphabet or writing system to another. |
| transverse alliteration | Alliteration of the patterns abab or abba; successive or chiastic CYNGHANEDD. Common in ancient poetry but also used by Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens. |
| triad | In classical prosody, a set of three stanzas, the first two metrically alike and the third different. |
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