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| storyboard | a series of sketches placed in sequence, much like a comic strip, that provide a visual map for the entire film |
| stream of consciousness novel | prose fiction in which the inner thoughts and feelings of a character are presented as the occur; a record of the conscious experiences of a character as a continuous, flowing series of images and ideas running though the mind. psychological novel |
| style | the specific manner in which something is composed, expressed, or preformed; the particular way in which the ideas expressed in any work find form in the individuality of the authors mode of expression |
| subject shot | a shot that presents visual information from the point of view of a particular character; a shot in which the camera is placed in such a way that it replicates what a character would be viewing |
| subplot | a subordinate story or complication that runs through and contributes to the principal plot |
| superimposition | a shot in which one or more images are placed on top of one another |
| symbol/symbolism | a significance given to inanimate objects, by which philosophical, spiritual, religious, or social abstractions are concertized; an object that indicates something beyond itself |
| synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole (ex. using ¨hollywood¨ for the entire american film industry) |
| take | the single, uninterrupted filming of a shot. several takes are normally filmed and numbered for one shot, and the best take is edited into the movie |
| tale | a simple narrative, in a prose or verse, that lacks complications of plot |