Poets & Poems
Author of famous poem, The Raven
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
A group of lines in a poem
A word to represent a sound, spelled the way it sounds
What is an onomatopoeia?
People or animals that are the center of a story
What are characters?
Actors learn lines by reading from this piece of writing
What is a script?
This ancient poet is famous for her queer writing
Who is Sappho of Lesbos?
Author of a poem
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
Where a story takes place
What is the setting?
Platform upon which actors often perform
What is a stage?
This Matthew Arnold poem begins, "The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair"
What is Dover Beach?
Type of poem broken into 5-7-5 syllable patterns
What is a haiku?
The repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words
What is alliteration?
Conversation in a story
What is dialogue?
The background behind actors during a show
What is a set?
Edmund Spenser coined the word "blatant" to describe a beast in this allegorical poem
What is The Faerie Queen?
One row of words in a poem (This is a weird definition phrasing)
What is a line?
A comparison without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
The character telling a story
What is the narrator?
Tells the actors how to act and speak or what should happen on stage
What are stage directions?
The author of "The Odyssey"
Who is Homer?
The regular pattern of sounds in the whole poem created by stressed and unstressed syllables
What is rhythm?
Giving animals and things human characteristics
What is personification?
First - (ex: I)
Second - (ex: you)
Third (ex: he/she/they)
Point of View
Special text features that tell the actors exactly what to say and do
What are structural elements?