Try Some Figurative Language
Give Me Some PLAY
Tell me a STORY
Poetry Slam
It's a Toss Up!
100
A comparison between two things using like or as.
What is a SIMILE?
100
Conversations between characters
What is DIALOGUE?
100
The people or animals in a story
What are CHARACTERS?
100
Over-exaggeration
What is HYPERBOLE?
100
The main character in a piece of literature
What is the PROTAGONIST?
200
Giving human qualities or traits to something that is not human.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
200
Information on the setting and how the play should be performed that is printed in italics or in parentheses.
What are STAGE DIRECTIONS?
200
Where and when a story takes place.
What is the SETTING?
200
A series of words that begin with the same sound.
What is ALLITERATION?
200
A 5-Lined nonsense poem where lines 1, 2 & 5 Rhyme and Lines 3 & 4 Rhyme.
What is a Limerick?
300
The use of words to create vivid mental images or pictures in the reader's head or to appeal to the 5 senses.
What is IMAGERY?
300
Plays are made up of Scenes that are organized in these.
What are ACTS?
300
The turning point of the story.
What is the CLIMAX?
300
A poem is made up of lines arranged in these "poetry paragraphs."
What is STANZA?
300
(Type of conflict) You are caught in and struggling to survive against a tornado.
What is MAN VS NATURE?
400
A comparison between two things without using like or as.
What is a METAPHOR?
400
Occurs when you know more than the person(s) in the play.
What is DRAMATIC IRONY?
400
The main problem in a story
What is the CONFLICT?
400
A set of 2 lines that rhyme.
What is a COUPLET?
400
Why something happens and what the result will be.
What is CAUSE AND EFFECT?
500
A problem between what is expected and what actually happens. (There are 3 different types of this.)
What is IRONY?
500
The writing in the play that is not spoken, or is not dialogue.
What is NARRATION?
500
The moral or lesson the author wants us to learn.
What is the THEME?
500
A set of 4 lines that rhyme.
What is a QUATRAIN?
500
The main message of a paragraph or passage.
What is the MAIN IDEA?
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