Poetry
Types of Literature
Theater Terms
Parts of a Story
Another Way of Saying
100
*Blank* is the repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
100
An authors account of their own life.
What is an auto-biography?
100
A unit of division in a play.
What is an act?
100
Any part of a story that happens after the climax.
What is the falling action?
100
A tension breaking moment in an otherwise serious scene.
What is comic relief?
200
An unrhymed style of poetry written in iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse?
200
A type of literature that develops plot and characters through dialogue and action.
What is drama?
200
A conversation between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
200
Any background information of a story.
What is the exposition?
200
An authors word choice.
What is diction?
300
This happens when the sound of a words accented vowels and all succeeding sounds are the same.
What is rhyme?
300
A style of literature that is about real people, places, and events.
What is non-fiction?
300
A unit of sub-division in a play.
What is a scene?
300
The chain of events that take place.
What is the plot?
300
The problem of a story.
What is conflict?
400
A group of lines that form a unit in a poem.
What is a stanza?
400
A story that can be read in one sitting.
What is a short story?
400
The time and place of which the story takes place.
What is the setting?
400
The part of the story that develops complications and intensifies conflict.
What is the rising action?
400
Typically a "good-guy" in the story, the main character.
What is a protagonist.
500
Language arranged in lines that attempts to re-create emotions and experiences.
What is poetry.
500
A mock of a serious work of literature.
What is parody?
500
A kind of instruction manual for the director, actors, and stage crew. Usually in italic print.
What are stage directions?
500
The moment in a story where it reaches the most interest and emotional intensity.
What is the climax?
500
The message that the reader takes away from the story.
What is the theme?
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