Vocab Column 1
The repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of a word.
What is Alliteration?
To perform with little or no preparation and usually without a script.
What is Improvise?
The voice or character speaking or narrating a story.
What is Persona?
A unit of poetry, such as a line or stanza.
What is Verse?
A sentence that consists of just one independent clause. A simple sentence has no dependent clauses.
What is a simple sentence?
The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words.
What is Assonance
When a word written within a line of poetry rhymes with a word at the end of the line.
What is Internal Rhyme?
Poetic techniques used for effect.
What is Poetic Devices?
A group of words that renames the noun next to it
What is Appositive Phrases?
Give an example of a simple sentence
A simple sentence is...
The repetition of consonant sounds.
What is Consonance
A speech or written expression of thoughts by a character always written from first-person point of view.
What is Monologue?
Accurate and careful about details.
What is Precise?
Give an example of an Appositive Phrases
An Appositive Phrases is....?
A sentence that has at least two independent clauses joined by a comma, semicolon or conjunction. There are no dependent clauses in a compound sentence.
What is a compound sentence?
A kind of pictorial representation.
What is Diagram?
A form of acting without words, using motions, gestures, and expressions to convey emotions or situation.
What is Pantomime?
The ordinary form of written language, using sentences and paragraphs.
What is Prose?
A group of related words that DO have a subject and a verb
What is a Clause?
Give an example of a compound sentence
A compound sentecne is...
A conversation between two characters in a play.
What is Dialogue?
A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule.
What is Parody?
The arrangement of the parts of something.
What is Structure?
Must have a subject and a verb
Must complete a thought
Must be able to stand on its own
What is an Independent Clause?
Joins two independent clauses
What are: Semicolons - Between Independent Clauses