Drama
Short Stories & Novels
Literary Terms
Figurative Language
Grammar & Writing Skills
100

This term refers to the written text of a play, which includes the dialogue between characters and stage directions.

What is a script.

100

Main Character in the novel.

What is protagonists?

100

This helps a reader to know when and where a story takes place.

What is the Setting?

100

This type of figurative language compares two things using like or as.

What is a simile?

100

 This common punctuation mark is used to join two independent clauses that are closely related in thought, without using a conjunction like "and" or "but."

What is a semicolon

200

Unlike a monologue where a character speaks to others, this is a long speech delivered by a character alone on stage to reveal their inner thoughts to the audience.

What is soliloquy 

200

How does the first line of the short stories work?

It can hook readers and set the theme and the tone of the story.

200

This is the struggle the main character must overcome, or solve, in a story.

What is conflict?

200

This type of language makes an extremely exaggerated statement.

What is Hyperbole?


200

This type of sentence error occurs when two or more independent clauses are joined together without any punctuation or connecting words.

What is a run on sentence.

300

In a tragedy, this is the specific term for the protagonist's such as excessive pride that eventually leads to their downfall.

What is a tragic flow?

300

What are the strategies that help us understand after reading a novel?

Visualization, questions, and thoughts.

300

This counterpart to the main character is often the source of a story's main conflict.

Who is the antagonist?

300

Identify the figurative language: Sunny skies and soft sand made the perfect summer day.

What is Alliteration?

300

Usually found at the end of the introductory paragraph, this single sentence clearly states the main point or claim of an entire essay.

What is a thesis statement 

400

These notes in the script, usually italicized or in parentheses, tell actors how to move or speak but are never meant to be spoken aloud by the characters.

What are stage directions

400

What is the difference between protagonist and antagonists

Protagonists is the main character who solves the conflict. Antagonists is the character who creates the conflict.

400

This is the character that most readers are meant to identify with and look up to.

Who is the Protagonist?

400

What figurative language is in this sentence. "If you throw in the towel before you should, you'll never learn the value of hard work."

What is Idiom?

400

In a formal essay, these are words or phrases like however, furthermore, or consequently that help connect ideas and create a smooth flow between paragraphs

What are transition words

500

This occurs when the audience or reader knows something vital that the characters on stage does not creating tension or suspense.

What is dramatic irony

500

What is the most important part of a story in a novel?

Conflict is the struggle between opposing characters.

500

The "feeling" of a story, whether it is sad, angry, joyful, mysterious, or peaceful.

What is the tone of the story?

500

List 11 types of figurative language

Simile, Metaphor, Oxymoron, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, Onomatopoeia, Symbolism, Irony, Pun, and Idiom.

500

This writing error happens when a descriptive phrase is placed too far away from the word it is supposed to describe, often leading to a confusing or funny meaning.

What is a misplaced modifier.

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