Drama
Poems
Figurative Language I
Figurative Language II
Hodgepodge
100
The movable objects used by the actors during a play.
What are props?
100
A Japanese poem with three lines and a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.
What is a haiku?
100
A comparison that uses like or as.
What is a simile?
100
An object, person, place, or event that stands for something larger than itself.
What is a symbol?
100
A play with a happy ending after many complications.
What is comedy?
200
The name of a person who writes a play.
What is a playwright?
200
A poem with no set form, meter, or rhyme.
What is a free verse poem?
200
Words that imitate sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
A comparison that does not use like or as two compare two unlike objects.
What is a metaphor?
200
Tells the actors how to perform a play; usually written in italics or brackets.
What are stage directions?
300
A long speech made by a character to the audience; the other characters do not hear this speech.
What is a soliloquy?
300
A Japanese poem with five lines and a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable pattern
What is a tanka?
300
The recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, or lines for emphasis.
What is repetition?
300
Animals, objects, or other things represented as being human or having human qualities.
What is personification?
300
The author's attitude toward his subject or audience as revealed through word choice.
What is tone?
400
A long speech made by a character to the other characters in the play.
What is a monologue?
400
A 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter.
What is a sonnet?
400
The repetition of vowel sounds within non-rhyming words.
What is assonance?
400
Language that creates a sensory impression within the reader's mind.
What is imagery?
400
A fault in a main character that leads to his or her downfall.
What is a tragic flaw?
500
A brief comment made by a character onstage to the audience.
What is an aside?
500
A poem with 19 lines in which certain lines are repeated.
What is a villanelle?
500
The regular pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
What is meter?
500
An overstatement or exaggeration for effect; i.e., It will take forever to drive to Grandma's house!
What is a hyperbole?
500
The repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of words.
What is consonance?
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