Figures of Speech
Genres #1
Point of View
Drama
100

Giving human qualities to an object or animal.

Personification

100

A story about people and events that are made up but could actually happen in real life.

Realistic Fiction

100

A story that is told from the perspective of someone in the story.

First Person

100

The parts a play/drama is divided into.

Acts/Scenes

200

Using like or as to compare two or more things.

Simile

200

A story with real and/or fake characters that is set in a real time period or event from history.

Historical Fiction

200

The person or voice who is telling the story.

Narrator

200
Who is in the play.

Characters

300
Saying that something is something else.

Metaphor

300

Stories that were originally told by word of mouth and include exaggerated characters and obstacles. They have been passed down throughout generations. They usually include a moral or a lesson.

Folktale

300

When a story is told by the narrator addressing the reader.

Second Person

300

When and where the play takes place.

Setting

400

A word that imitates the sound it represents.

Onomotopoeia

400

A piece of literature that has rhythm, often repeats or rhymes, and expresses feelings or ideas.

Poem

400

When a story is told by someone who is not a part of the story.

Third Person

400

The speech between characters.

Dialogue

500

The repetition of the same beginning sound within a statement.

Alliteration

500

A folktale that explains something about the world such a as frightening or mysterious natural forces.

Myth

500

The text of a play.

Script

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