Theater Terms
Figurative Language
Literary Terms
Terms/CSQT
Fun Facts
100

When comedy cuts tension in a drama or tragedy

What is Comedic Relief?

100
Phrase or adjective describing someone

What is an epithet?

100

Name for plot introduction

What is Exposition?

100

When two opposing words appear together

What is Oxymoron?

100

What Odysseus thought of to defeat Troy

What is the Trojan Horse?

200

Long speech by one character when others are present

What is a monologue?

200
A play on words

What is a pun?

200

When a character remains the same

What is Static Character?

200

Order of CSQT Setup

What is title, author, summary?

200

# years it took the Bard to write R&J

What are three years?

300

Making a remark that other characters can't hear

What is an aside?

300
A purposeful exaggeration

What is hyperbole?

300

A well-described character

What is Round Character?

300

Order of Shakespeare in-text citations

What is act.scene.lines?

300

Ruler when Shakespeare wrote R&J

Who was Queen Elizabeth I?

400

Long speech by a character who is alone

What is a soliloquy?

400

Human qualities applied to something

What is personification?

400

When a modern story references an older story

What is Allusion?

400

T or F: CSQT Setup can be before or after the claim

What is true?

400

T or F: Verona is a real town in Italy.

What is true?

500

Compare or contrast two characters

What is a foil?

500

Part of something represents the whole

What is synecdoche?

500

When a character changes

What is Dynamic Character?

500

Describe the Tie-In

What is, the first tie-in sentence sums up the quote, and the second tie-in sentence refers back to the claim?

500

# of days R&J covers

What is four days?

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