Drama
What is a situation where a person must choose between two conflicting moral principles called?
Moral dilemma
The events of a story.
Plot
Which book title is capitalized correctly?
A) The Catcher In The Rye
B) the Catcher in the Rye
C) The Catcher in the Rye
D) The Catcher in The Rye
C
When an author gives hints in a narrative about events that will happen later in the story.
Foreshadowing
When you have to make an educated guess about what the author is trying to say.
Inference/Infer
Instructions in a script that describe the movement, appearance, or tone of characters.
Stage Directions
A struggle occurring within a character's own mind (character vs. self).
Internal conflict
What root word means to draw tight or “to bind?”
-strict-
Omniscient means what?
All knowing
Scenario: A character says "Nice job!" to someone who just dropped a tray of food. The character is using what type of irony?
Verbal Irony
When the audience knows something that the characters do not know - for example Romeo didn’t know that Juliet was only fake dead.
Dramatic Irony
The point of a narrative where the conflict takes a turn. The most I tese part of the story.
Climax
At the end of a quotation where do the commas and period go?
Inside the quotation marks.
When the outcome or reality is opposite of what you expected.
Situational Irony
What is a recurring element (symbol, image, word) that has symbolic significance.
Motif
What is a long speech by one character addressed to other characters on stage.
Dramatic Monologue
A type of narrative where the narrator is the protagonist in the story.
First Person Narrative
The repetition of a specific grammatical form within a sentence.
Parallel Structure
The emotional or cultural associations attached to a word beyond its literal meaning.
Example "Home" suggests warmth, security, and family.
Connotation
A character calling his grandfather a "Noah with no ark" is an example of a ___________allegory.
Biblical
What is the background information about characters, setting, and conflict provided at the start of a play called?
Dramatic Exposition
Starting a narrative in the middle of the action rather than at the beginning.
In Media Res
Two independent clauses joined by a semicolon or a comma and a conjunction (FANBOYS: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so).
Compound sentence
The end of a story when all the loose ends are tied up and everything is explained.
Denouement
The play the Crucible by Arthur Miller is an ___________ that represented the plight of Americans in the 1950s under McCarthyism.
Allegory