The overall message being portrayed to the reader by the author.
What is theme?
100
The main character of a story, the "good guy".
What is the protagonist?
100
-clear and direct with no wasted words
-must have plot with an introduction, development, conclusion, and characters who work through a conflict
-should appeal to a wide range of readers
What are characteristics of short stories?
100
The basic dictionary meaning of a word, without its connotations.
What is denotation?
100
The attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
What is personification?
200
Comparing two things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
200
The character in opposition of the protagonist.
What is an antagonist?
200
monologue
screenplay
poem meant to be performed
novel adapted as drama/ movie
Name 2 types of drama that are meant to be performed?
200
The suggesting of additional meanings by a word or expression, apart from its denotative meaning, often an implied meaning.
What is connotation?
200
The pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences, as rhyme royal, ababbcc.
What is rhyme scheme?
300
The comparison of two things not using the words like or as.
What is metaphor?
300
The outline or plan of action of a narrative or drama, also referred to as the story line.
What is the plot?
300
oral interpretation
story theatre
reader's theatre
creative dramatics
role-playing
What are types of dramatic presentation?
300
To engage in an argument or discussion that inovlves opposing viewpoints.
What is a debate?
300
The use of the same consonant or of a vowel, not necessarily the same vowel, at the beginning of each word or each stressed syllable in a line of verse, as in:
Around the rock the ragged rascal ran.
What is alliteration?
400
The arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.
What is a stanza?
400
The class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration.
Finish this sentence"
Poetry "has the ______ not only to delight but also has the potential to _____"
400
The humorous or mildly sarcastic use of words to imply the opposite of what they normally mean.
What is irony?
400
Obvious and intentional exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
500
A form of an extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative have meanings outside the narrative itself. An ________ has two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.
What is allegory?
500
A person who gives an account or tells the story of events, experiences, etc.
What is a narrator?
500
haiku
free verse
rhyme
spoken word
narrative
lyrical
limerick
modern
classic
rap
What are types of poetry?
500
The choice and use of words in writing or speech used by author to convey a certain effect to the audience.
What is diction?
500
Poetry without a fixed pattern of meter and rhyme.