Vocabulary
Elements
Dramatic Structure
Figurative Language
Character Traits
100

The way one looks at something or a person's point of view.

What is perspective?

100

A place and time the story/drama takes place.

What is the setting?

100

A play that is written to be acted out for an audience.

What is a drama?

100

A comparison between to objects that are not alike but compared using the words "like or as."

What is a simile?

100

The qualities, attitudes, and values that a character possesses.

What are character traits?

200

A change from something's original form.

What is transform?

200

The main problem in the story/play.

What is a conflict?

200

A drama has characters, setting, and a plot that revolves around a conflict. Information develops through the characters' words.

What is a dialogue?

200

A group of words that begin with the same consonant sound(s).

What is an alliteration?

200

A character that develops and learns something during the course of the story.

What is a dynamic character?

300

When something is new, fresh, or unusual.

What is novelty?

300

People or animals in a story, movie, or play.

What are characters?

300

A written version of a play and it has the name of each character appears before his/her dialogue.

What is a script?

300

A figure of speech in which there is a contradiction of expectation between what is said and what is really meant.

What is Irony?

300

A character that shows no change through out the course of the story.

What is a static character?

400

As a result.

What is consequently?

400

The main part of the story/drama or play that has the expository, rising actions, climax, falling actions, and the resolution.

What is the plot?

400

The dialogue reveals information about a character's personality.

What is a point of view?

400

When objects, animals, plants, or things take on human characteristics.

What is personification?

400

An author describes a character in a straightforward way, the author shows their traits through that character's actions, speech, thoughts, appearance, and how other characters react to them.

What is Indirect Characterization?

500

To get a friendly push or to motivate another person.

What is to inspire?

500

The climax is where this problem comes to its highest point and the way the author helps readers to see the story line a certain way.

What is the conflict and the author's point of view?

500

A drama or play divided into shorter sections.

                          AND

Each act might contain several of these.

What are acts?

        AND

What are scenes?

500

A word that shows great exaggeration.

What is a hyperbole?

500

When an author describes a character in a straightforward manner, as if telling the reader directly.

What is a direct characterization?

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