FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
POETIC LANGUAGE
PARTS OF A DRAMA
IDIOM MEANINGS
FOLKLORE GENRES
100
Crash! Bang! Whoosh!
What is ONOMATOPOEIA?
100
The pattern of rhyming in a poem
What is Rhyme Scheme?
100
The list of characters in a drama.
What is the CAST?
100
Hold your horses
To be patient and wait
100
A made-up story with magic and imaginary characters.
What is a FAIRY TALE?
200
She floated into the room like a cloud.
What is a SIMILE?
200
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a STANZA?
200
The things the actors say in a drama.
What are LINES?
200
Beat Around the Bush
To stall; avoid the topic
200
A fictional story that usually has talking animals and a moral.
What is a FABLE?
300
Her stomach growled.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
300
A line which has several words that begin with the same sound.
What is Alliteration?
300
The author of a drama.
Who is the PLAYWRIGHT?
300
Every Cloud has a Silver Lining
To be optimistic; find good even in bad things
300
A story, set in the Old West, that has been exaggerated in a humorous way.
What is a TALL TALE?
400
The book was a passport to adventure.
What is a METAPHOR?
400
Words that "paint a picture" of something in your mind.
What is IMAGERY?
400
They are written in parenthesis and they tell the actors what to do.
What are the STAGE DIRECTIONS?
400
Kill Two Birds with One Stone
To accomplish two things at once.
400
A story that explains the origin of something.
What is a MYTH?
500
My backpack weighs a ton!
What is HYPERBOLE?
500
Two words that rhyme in the same line.
What is INTERNAL RHYME?
500
A paragraph at the beginning of the drama that sets the beginning scene of the play.
What are the DIRECTOR'S NOTES?
500
Once in a Blue Moon
To happen rarely.
500
A story that has been exaggerated in a serious way.
What is a LEGEND?
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