Figure of Speech
Words that start with S
Types of Speech
Story Components
Words that start with D
100
Turning point.
What is Climax
100
Background to a story
What is setting
100
The verbal exchange between characters.
What is dialogue.
100
events leading up to the climax
What is rising action?
100
word choice
What is diction?
200
A pithy saying often using contrast
What is epigram
200
A speech in which a character who is alone speaks his own thoughts.
What is soliloquy.
200
The type of informational diction.
What is dialect
200
a minor plot that relates in some way to the main story
What is subplot?
200
use of material unrealted to the subject of a work
What is digression?
300
Deliberate exaggeration
What is hyperbole
300
The specific instructions a playwright includes concerning sets, characterization, delivery, etc.
What is stage directions.
300
Word choice.
What is diction.
300
background to a story
What is setting?
300
literal meaning of a word
What is denotation?
400
Intent and actual meaning differ
What is irony
400
Conventional pattern, expression, character, or idea.
What is stereotype.
400
Mode of expression expression in language.
What is style.
400
events after the climax, leading to the resolution
What is falling action?
400
the verbal exchange of informational diction
What is dialogue?
500
Combination of opposites
What is oxymoron.
500
A minor plot that related in some way to the main story.
What is subplot
500
Special language of a profession group
What is Jargon
500
items or parts that make up a story
What is details?
500
major character that encounters conflict and is change by it, ; "round character"
What is dynamic character?
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