SET: a collection of scenery, forniture, etc., used for a scene in a play.
To set: to put in a particular place or position.
SETTING: the scenery or the background used to create the location for a play.
PLOT: the way events are organised by the narrator.
STORY: is a narrative (either true or fictitious) in prose or verse, in which adventures and events are presented in chronological and emotional way (with flashbacks, flash fowards, etc.)
POEM: literary creation (it is a single piece of poetry, complete in itself).
POETRY: is the collective term used to describe a group of poems, which may or may not be related by theme, poet or style.
MONOLOGUE: (from the Greek “monos”=”single”) is a long speech given by a single person to an audience (generally used in a play).
SOLILOQUY: (from the Latin “solus”=”alone”) is a speech that one gives to oneself. In a play, a character delivering a soliloquy talks to himself, so that the audience can better understand what is happening to the charachter internally (one example is Hamlet’s soliloquy in ActIII, scene I).
TRAGEDY: is a drama or literary work in which the main chatachter is brought to ruin or suffers, expecially as a consequence of a tragic situation.
LYOUT: the way the text looks on the page (text organization).
DENOTATIVE LEVEL: what the text is about.
THEME: the meaning of the text.
SYNTATIC LEVEL: how words are organised in a sentence ( words order) and how the writer used the puntuaction (if he used pauses or language deviations).
SEMANTICAL LEVEL: to analyse semantic fields.
RHETORICAL LEVEL: the use of figurative language (metaphors, similies, personifications, litotes, synaesthesias, etc.).
SONNET: is a poem of 14 lines usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to one certain define schemes (for example in a common Enlglish the sonnet is organised into 3 quatrains and a final couplet).
LINE: a single line of words in a poem.