the conversation among characters in any kind of narrative,story, or play
What is dialogue?
100
In a story, play, or novel, the series of events that builds from the conflict.
What is rising action?
100
The sequence of events that follow the climax and end in the resolution.
What is falling action?
100
FREE SPACE
What is FREE SPACE?
100
The way an author presents his/her characters.
What is characterization?
200
A single person gives a long speech to the audience or another character on stage
What is monologue?
200
A figure of speech which gives the qualities of a person to an animal, an object, or an idea.
What is personification?
200
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, without using the word like or as.
What is metaphor?
200
An author’s use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
200
The feeling/emotions that a literary work conveys to readers.
What is mood?
300
a dramatic convention that is spoken in an undertone and meant to be heard only by the audience
What is aside?
300
Type of irony which occurs when the speaker means something totally different than what he is saying or the audience realizes.
What is verbal irony?
300
The type of irony that occurs when the audience or reader knows more than the characters know.
What is dramatic irony?
300
In general terms, anything that stands for something else.
What is a symbol?
300
The sequence of related events that make up a story.
What is plot?
400
a reference to another body of literature, famous person or event
What is allusion?
400
The main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work.
What is theme?
400
In a story, play, or novel the moment that rounds out and concludes the action.
What is resolution?
400
Language that appeals to our sense. Descriptions of people or objects stated in terms of our senses.
Imagery
400
The introductory material which gives the setting, creates the tone, presents the characters, and presents other facts necessary to understanding the story.
What is exposition?
500
a long speech in which a character is alone on the stage and expresses his/her thoughts and feelings
What is soliloquy?
500
An exaggerated statement used to heighten effect.
What is hyperbole?
500
An extended metaphor in which a person, abstract idea, or event stands for itself and for something else.
What is allegory?
500
Name the four types of conflict.
What is Man vs....self, man, society, and nature.
500
What is the definition of an oxymoron?
What is a form of figurative language combining contradictory words or ideas (ex. jumbo shrimp, bittersweet).