Drama Terms
Poetry terms
Name that author
Figurative Language
Miscellaneous
100
A speech given by a single person to an audience
What is a monologue
100
A group of consecutive lines that form a structural unit in a poem
What is a stanza
100
"The Raven"
Who is Edgar Allan Poe
100
A word or phrase, often a figure of speech, that has become lifeless because of overuse
What is a cliche
100
A way of speaking that is specific to a particular region or group of people
What is dialect
200
A conversation between characters
What is dialogue
200
A 14 line poem, usually written with iambs
What is a sonnet
200
The Narrative of the Captivity of Mary Rowlandson
Who is Mary Rowlandson
200
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase
What is an oxymoron
200
What are the 3 techniques used in persuasive media?
What are ethos, logos and pathos
300
In a play, a character talking to themselves — thinking out loud, so that the audience better understands what is happening to the character internally
What is a soliloquy
300
An instance when rhyming words come at the end of a line
What is end rhyme
300
The Great Gatsby
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald
300
A play on words
What is a pun
300
What archetype is The Great Gatsby centered around?
What is the American Dream
400
Brief comments by an actor who addresses the audience but is assumed not to be heard by the other characters on stage
What is an aside
400
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep but I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep. and miles to go before I sleep." The first line of the passage ("The woods are lovely, dark and deep") contains an example of this.
What is imagery OR alliteration
400
The Devil and Tom Walker
Who is Washington Irving
400
A story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities
What is an allegory
400
A type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about change
What is a satire
500
A contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows to be true
What is dramatic irony
500
The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning
What is connotation
500
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Who is Jonathan Edwards
500
A statement that says less than what is meant
What is an understatement
500
What is the literary movement associated with Emerson and Thoreau
What is Romanticism or Transcendentalism
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