Poetry
A kind of writing, divided into lines shorter than the width of a page, that expresses an emotion, idea, or story with deliberate intention to sound, imagery, and form.
What is Poetry?
A text that tells a story primarily through spoken dialogue and stage directions.
What is a play?
a term that encompasses the struggle between opposing forces through a series of crises, which moves narrative action forward toward a climax.
A broad term for words and phrases that convey a significance other than their literal meaning such as metaphors, figures of speech, irony, personification, hyperbole, and puns.
What is Figurative Language?
The fictional person saying the words of a poem.
What is the speaker of a poem?
Stage directions are unspoken sentences in a play text that tell the actor what to do in performance; for the reader, they describe something that physically occurs onstage while these types of stage directions are embedded within the words spoken by the characters in a play.
The turning point in a narrative, when the intensity. of the story's action has reached its highest point and brought the protagonist to the precipice of change is called the climax while the ______ is a term relating to the narrative arc of a text after the climax, which finalizes any unresolved issues of the conflict.
What is denouement?
Language that appeals to the five senses, usually specific and concrete rather than abstract.
often used interchangeably with "poetry" to define a text not written in prose.
What is verse?
A series of cause-and-effect relationships that drive a play forward.
What is Dramatic Action?
The idea that a theatrical perfomance is consistent in time, action, and place, particularly in a play in the classical model.
What is "the three unities/classical unities"
A simile is comparison that uses like or as while a____ is a form of figurative language that describes something unfamiliar or uncertain by comparing it with something familiar or common.
What is a metaphor?
Two words that describe what a poem says and how a poem is organized ( pattern and style) or how it conveys its meaning.
What is content and form?
Beats are dramatic action subdivided into smaller units; a beat consists of exactly one cause and one effect. A _____ refers to an action that causes something to happen and a _____ refers to the logical effect.
What is a trigger and heap?
A fictional notion that in theatre, the audience is seeing the play take place through an invisible wall, and is therefore separate from the action of the play.
What is the fourth wall?
Mood is a text's emotional atmosphere while the speaker's attitude, as expressed through word choice and style is_____?
What is tone?
A single line of words in a poem is called a line. A set of one or more lines intentionally grouped together and separated from other groups by spaces is called?
What is a Stanza?
The moment at which a play's principle conflict begins.
What is inciting incident/point of attack?
A monologue is a speech delivered by an individual that is intended to convey his or her inner thoughts aloud, whether for him or herself or the audience or another character. While _____ is a speech that is generally not intended to be heard by others; employed as a way of communicating a character's internal struggle.
What is a Soliloquy?
When a line is end-stopped, it means it breaks at the end of a sentence or phrase; often accompanied by punctuation. When a line breaks in the middle of a sentence or phrase, it is called?
What is enjambment?