Poetry/Drama
Literary Elements
Figurative Language
Genres
Potpourri
100
Words or instructions in a play that are written in italics and enclosed by parenthesis
What are stage directions
100

The message or lesson of a story

What is theme

100

Example - The tree danced in the breeze

What is personification

100

Set in the past and involves real people, places, or significant events in history, but may not necessarily be a true story.

What is historical fiction?

100

Type of conflict that takes place within the character's mind or psyche. 

What is a internal conflict? (Man v Self)

200
In a play, the conversation between characters; it advances the plot and reveals conflict.
What is dialogue
200

An interruption in a story to describe an earlier event-

What is flashback?

200

Example - The earth is a green blanket

What is a metaphor

200

Includes stage directions and dialogue

What is drama?

200

The reason that the author is writing the book, article, or story-

What is author's purpose?

300
The repetition of sounds at the end of words
What is rhyme
300

The perspective from which a story is told

What is point of view

300

Example - Elizabeth is as fast as a cheetah.

What is a simile

300

Set in the modern present with human characters and story's plot could actually happen in the real world-

What is realistic fiction?

300

Describing a text's main idea, important details, and overall meaning in just a few sentences.

What is summarizing

400

The use of a word or phrase more than one time--used to emphasize.

What is repetition

400

A struggle between two opposing forces

What is conflict

400

Sound words- "pow" "buzz" "swish"

What is onomatopoeia

400

Nonfiction text that explains, describes, or informs

What is expository?

400

The point of view in which a narrator tells the story.

Third Person Point of View 

500

What do you call a group of lines in a poem?

What is a stanza?

500

The feeling created IN THE READER by a literary work or passage

What is mood

500

Language that appeals to the 5 senses

What is imagery

500

A story about someone's life

What is a biography

500

The strategy that we use to analyze poetry. (Acronym) 

What is PFIT?

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