Analyze Figurative Language
Terms
Figurative Language
Drama
Drama, Too
100

"The bell invites me." What type? 

Personification. The bell is a signal to someone that it is time to do something.

100
The central message or generalization about life.
What is theme
100
Comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as".
What is simile
100
The written form of a play, tv show, film, or radio show.
What is script
100
Information provided by the playwright to give actors instructions on how to feel or what to do when certain lines are spoken
What is stage directions
200

"Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand?" What type?

Hyperbole

200
The interruption of action to present events that took place at an earlier time.
What is flashback
200
Giving human qualities to animals and non living things
What is personification
200

A character is alone on stage and performing his/her thoughts aloud to the audience.

What is a soliloquy?

200
Story in dialogue form to be acted out by actors before a live audience
What is play
300

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite." What type of figurative language?

Simile

300
The feeling the reader gets from writing.
What is mood
300
Comparison of two unlike things
What is metaphor
300

The part of the play that introduces the characters, the setting, and some events of the play.

What is a prologue?

300
The conversation between actors on the stage.
What is dialogue
400

“It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon
Who is already sick and pale with grief
That thou her maid art far more fair than she." How would you describe Romeo's tone?

Infatuated, Adoring, Loving

400
The main character in a story.
What is protagonist
400
Exaggeration for emphasis
What is hyperbole
400
Remarks made to the audience or another character that the other characters on stage don't hear.
What is asides
400
A person who writes plays.
What is playwright
500

"My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning."

What is the author's purpose in using figurative language to explain this normal occurrence?


To signify how loud he feels the alarm clock is and how bothersome.

500
The character at odds with the protagonist.
What is antagonist
500

When an author makes a reference to something or someone well known or famous from history.

What is an allusion?

500

What is an epilogue?

the part of the play that ties up all lose ends and describes what happens after the play.

500
Speech spoken on stage by a single actor to other actors on stage.
What is monologue
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