Elements of Fiction
Elements of Drama
Characteristics of Poetry
Sound Devices
Vocabulary
100
time and location
What is setting
100
people who perform in a play
What are actors?
100
Describing one thing as if it were another (comparison without 'like' or 'as')
What is metaphore?
100
the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words ex lisa likes lazy llamas
What is alliteration?
100
an unconventional adventure
What is an escapade?
200
fictional writing is narrated by a speaker called_____
What is the narrator?
200
the author of a play
What is a playwright?
200
giving human (living) qualities to nonhuman (not living) things
What is personification?
200
the use of any element of language MORE THAN ONCE
What is repetition?
200
culpable
What is liable; responsible; at fault
300
message about life
What is the theme?
300
a long speech that is spoken by a single character
What is a monologue?
300
use 'like' or 'as' to compare to things that are not alike
What is a simile?
300
repetition of the SAME VOWEL sounds followed by different consonants assassinate, cake, cape
What is assonance?
300
having one's identity hidden
What is incognito?
400
made-up people or animals
What are characters?
400
sets of bracked information that describe scenery and how characters should move and speak
What are stage directions?
400
anything that represents something else
What is a symbol?
400
the repetition of consonant sounds at the ends of words. they do not rhyme wind, sand, pond
What is consonance?
400
pure; morally good; righteous vs. extremely wicked; evil
What is virtuous vs nefarious
500
references to major social and cultural information
What is historical context?
500
small movable items, like a cup or a student's notebook, that the actors sue to make their actions look realistic
What are props?
500
paragraphs (chunks of lines) in poetry
What are stanzas
500
the use of words that imitate sounds
What is onomatopoeia?
500
false; fake
What is faux
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