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 * Satire:** A literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness.


 * Self-monitor:** A comprehension strategy; knowing or recognizing when what one is reading or writing is not making sense.


 * Semantics:** The study of meaning in language.


 * Setting:** The time and place in which a story unfolds.


 * Simile:** A comparison of two unlike things in which a word of comparison (//like// or //as)// is used (e.g., //She eats like a bird//.//).//


 * Sonnet:** A lyric poem of fourteen lines whose rhyme scheme is fixed. The rhyme scheme in the Italian sonnets of Petrarch is //abbaabba cdecde//. The Petrarchian sonnet has two divisions: the first is of eight lines (the octave), and the second is of six lines (the sestet). The rhyme scheme of the English, or Shakespearean sonnet is //abab cdcd efef gg//.


 * Source:**
 * //Primary Source//**: Text and/or artifacts that tell or show a first-hand account of an event; original works used when researching (e.g. letters, journals).


 * //Secondary Source//**: Text and/or artifacts used when researching that are derived from something original (e.g. biographies, magazine articles, research papers).


 * Story Maps:** A visual representation of a story that provides an overview including characters, setting, the problem, and resolution or ending.


 * Subject area:** An organized body of knowledge; a discipline; a content area.


 * Suffix:** Suffixes are groups of letters placed after a word to modify its meaning or change it into a different word group, from an adjective to an adverb, etc.


 * Summarize:** To capture all the most important parts of the original text (paragraph, story, poem), but express them in a much shorter space, and - as much as possible - in the readers own words.


 * Support:** Give reasons or explain why.


 * Style:** How an author writes; an author’s use of language; its effects and appropriateness to the author’s intent and theme.


 * Symbolism:** A device in literature where an object represents an idea**.**


 * Synonym:** One of two or more words in a language that have highly similar meanings (e.g., sorrow, grief, sadness).


 * Syntax:** The pattern or structure of word order in sentences, clauses and phrases.