Myths
Dramas
Folktales
Works
Drama Structure
100
An exaggeration, used for comedic effect or to express strong emotions.
What is a hyperbole?
100
The two types of writing of dramas.
What are dialogue and stage directions?
100
Figurative language that is used in folk tales.
What is hyperbole?
100
A scene change (or the ending of a scene) in "The Governess"
What is when the lights fade after Julia leaves the stage?
100
Instructions on how the play should be performed.
What are stage directions?
200
A way of expressing something that treats it as smaller or less serious than it actually is.
What is an understatement?
200
The two ways drama can be presented.
What are as literature, the text of the play and as performance, the production of the play in a theatre.
200
Folk tales and tall tales deal with adventure, magic, or romance that perform this...
What are impossible feats?
200
The action the mistress takes to try to make Julia fight back in "The Governess"
What is she pretends that she has paid her eleven rubles but gives her ten?
200
The units of action in a drama.
What are acts?
300
Expressions that are not meant to be taken literally and are developed and understood by people of a certain region or group.
What is an idiom?
300
The two types of drama.
What are comedy and tragedy?
300
Two mosquitoes lighted on one of Paul Bunyan’s oxen, killed it, ate it, cleaned the bones. (figurative language)
What is an example of hyperbole?
300
The main purpose of "Coyote Steals Sun and Moon" ?
What is to explain the origin of winter?
300
The parts of the acts in a drama.
What are scenes?
400
The language and grammar of a particular region or group; used to make dialogue sound realistic and to reflect the story’s cultural background.
What is dialect?
400
Is the playwright’s technique for creating believable characters.
What is characterization?
400
Based on hardworking people.
What is the content of folk tales?
400
The main purpose of the myth about Mrs. Wind and Mrs. Water
What is To explain a natural occurrence. (why waves have whitecaps)
400
A conversation between or among characters in a drama.
What is a dialogue?
500
The purpose of a myth
What is to explain the elements of nature?
500
The author of a play.
What is a playwright?
500
American Folk Literature
What is the origin of "Folk Tales / Tall Tales" ?
500
This is the origin of Paul Bunyan and where his people came from.
What is Lumberjacks, bookless people, people in shanties?
500
A long speech by one single character in a drama.
What is a monologue?
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