Plot
Literary Elements
Drama
Drama #2
Figurative Language
100

The sequence of events in a story

What is plot?

100

The people are animals in a story.

What are characters?

100

A story performed by actors on a stage.

What is a drama?

100
Labels before lines of dialogue to show which character is speaking that line.

What are character tags?

100

When human qualities are given to something that is not human. 

What is a personification?

200

This is where you find out what the setting and characters of story are.

What is the Exposition?

200

When and where the story takes place. This may also include things like the weather.

What is setting?

200

The words said by the characters.

What is dialogue?

200

The person who wrote the play.

What is a playwright?

200

An exaggeration. (Ex: This assignment is going to take a million years!)

Hyperbole

300
The most exciting/suspenseful part of the story. It is also known as the "turning point" of the story.

What is climax?

300

The main problem that the characters face.

What is conflict?

300

Written instructions telling the characters what to do. (These are not spoken by the characters)

What are stage directions?

300

The time and place in a play.

What is the setting?

300

This is an example of what type of figurative language?

The students was as funny as a clown.

Simile

400

This is where the conflict begins to build in the story and it leads to the turning point in the story.

What is rising action?

400

Name the characters in "A Penny Saved is A Penny Earned."

The boy, Mrs. Thompson, and the Mom/Dad.

400

The action that takes place in a single setting.

What are scenes?

400

The person who tells what happens during the play.

What is a narrator?

400

What is the one difference between a simile and a metaphor?

A simile uses "like" or "as" to compare two things, when a metaphor just compares two things directly.

500
The conflict is resolved and the story is coming to a close.

What is rising action/resolution?

500

What is the climax of "A Penny Saved is A Penny Earned?"

When the boy went back to the drugstore and saw that the pencils were gone.

500

Chapters in a play that contain more than one scene.

What are acts?

500

When the setting changes in a drama, a new ______ begins.

Scene

500

What is this an example of?

This assignment is a piece of cake.

Idiom

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