📝Stage Directions

An instruction in the text of a play indicating movement, position, or tone.

📦Stanza

A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem.

🧍Static Character

A character who does not change throughout a story.

🌊Stream of Consciousness

A narrative technique that presents a character's continuous flow of thoughts.

🌊Stream of Consciousness (English Literature)

A narrative technique that presents a character's continuous flow of thoughts.

✒️Style (English Literature)

The way in which something is written, spoken, or performed.

🔮Symbolism

The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.

🖐️Synecdoche

A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole.

💡Theme (English Literature)

The central topic or message of a literary work.

👁️Third-Person Limited

The narrator knows the thoughts of one character.

📷Third-Person Objective

The narrator reports only what can be seen and heard.

🔮Third-Person Omniscient

The narrator knows the thoughts of all characters.

🎨Tone (English Literature)

The general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.

🎭Tragic Hero

A protagonist with a fatal flaw leading to their downfall.

📉Understatement

The presentation of something as being smaller or less important than it actually is.

🤥Unreliable Narrator

A narrator whose credibility is compromised.

💬Verbal Irony

A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant.

🏘️Vernacular

The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people of a country or region.

📜Verse

Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme.

🗣️Voice (English Literature)

The distinctive style or personality of a writer.