Poetry for Life
a comparison of two things using like or as
What is a simile?
Descriptions or directions in the script that tell how the play is to be performed
What are stage directions?
The time and the place of a story
What is setting?
Hints or clues that suggest what may happen later in a story
What is foreshadowing?
the end of the story where the main conflict is resolved
What is resolution?
A comparison of two unlike things by saying one thing is a dissimilar object or thing
What is a metaphor?
A major section of a play, usually made up of several scenes
What is an act?
The main character in a story
What is the protagonist?
the words spoken aloud between characters in a piece of literature
What is dialogue?
The main part of the story where complications arise
What is the rising action?
Giving human qualities to nonhuman things
What is personification?
Spoken dialogue by a character in a play
What is a line?
The person (or force) in conflict with the protagonist
What is an antagonist?
A group of words whose collective meaning is quite different from their individual, literal meaning
What is an idiom?
The most exciting or intense part of the story
What is the climax?
an exaggeration that cannot possible be true
What is hyperbole?
The written text of a play
What is a script?
The chain of events that make up a story
What is a plot?
The attitude a writer takes toward the subject or the reader
What is tone?
The events that follow the climax
What is the falling action?
a reference to a person, place or event from literature, sports, history, movies, or the arts
What is allusion?
Ends when characters leave the stage
What is a scene?
a truth about life that is revealed in a story
What is theme?
The overall feeling or atmosphere created by a work of literature
What is the mood?
Where the setting, characters, and basic situation are revealed
What is the exposition?