Drama
Poetry Types
Figurative Language
Mythology
Sound Devices
100
tragedy and comedy
What are the two types of drama?
100
poetry written on a tombstone
What is an epitaph?
100
a comparison of two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
a traditional story that was created to explain mysteries of the universe
What is a myth?
100
consonant sounds repeated at the beginning of words
What is alliteration?
200
where and when a story takes place
What is the setting?
200
a "shape poem"
What is concrete poetry?
200
a comparison of two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
200
a story that begins and ends at the same starting point
What is a circle story?
200
words that imitate the sound they are naming
What is onomatopoeia?
300
a speech by a character alone onstage to the audience or himself/herself
What is a soliloquy?
300
poems that usually do not rhyme
What is free verse?
300
words or phrases that appeal to the five senses
What is imagery?
300
a long narrative poem that tells about a series of quests undertaken by a great hero
What is an epic tale/poem?
300
the beat of the poem
What is rhythm?
400
a personal failing that leads to a character's downfall
What is a tragic flaw?
400
a Japanese poem written in three lines
What is haiku?
400
giving an animal or object human qualities
What is personification?
400
a brief story that teaches a lesson or moral about human nature
What is a fable?
400
pattern of rhyme in a poem
What is rhyme scheme?
500
conversation between characters
What is dialogue?
500
a poem that tells a story
What is narrative poetry?
500
an expression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression
What is an idiom?
500
a simile running to many lines
What is an extended simile?
500
sound, word, phrase, or line repeated regularly in a poem
What is refrain?
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