Fiction
Performance Coach
Poetry
Figures of Speech
Drama
100
Fiction that takes place in present day.
What is contemporary fiction?
100
the place where the story happens and the time period
What is setting?
100
groups of lines set apart by spaces
What are stanzas?
100
a comparison using like or as
What is simile?
100
the performers in a drama
What is cast of characters?
200
A traditional story from a certain place; may give reasons for how something was created or how it works.
What is a myth?
200
series of events in a story
What is plot?
200
the beat of a poem
What is rhythm?
200
a comparison that does not use like or as
What is a metaphor?
200
the main divisions of a drama
What is act?
300
takes place in the past; uses details about the history of the time
What is historical fiction?
300
message or lesson the author wants to share with the reader
What is theme?
300
the repetition of an initial consonant sound
What is alliteration?
300
the assigning of human qualities to nonliving things
What is personification?
300
the lines spoken by the characters
What is dialogue?
400
a short story with a moral or a lesson
What is a fable?
400
a character in a story who looks at events and other characters from his or her point of view
What is first-person narrator?
400
words with the same ending sound
What is rhyme?
400
the use of an image or thing to stand for something else
What is symbolism?
400
smaller divisions within an act
What is scene?
500
about science and technology of the future; may be set in the future or in space
What is science fiction?
500
words in a sentence that help you understand the meaning of an unfamiliar word
What are context clues?
500
a type of writing in which the poet chooses and arranges words to create a strong feeling through meaning, sound, and rhythm.
What is a poem?
500
a reference to anther work, such as the Bible or mythology
What is allusion?
500
the directions telling the characters how to speak or act; the directions telling how sound, lighting, and props are used
What are stage directions?
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