Drama
another word for movie
film
Sequence of events in a story
plot
giving human qualities to animal or objects
personification
Jim, Bob
Characters
a real time and place from history
historical setting
the time and place of a story
setting
extreme exaggeration
DAILY DOUBLE
hyperbole
a broom, a chair
prop
a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
play
theme
Central idea of a work of literature
word choice, figurative language, structure, imagery, meter, rhyme scheme etc. (for poetry)
stylistic elements
(cries loudly)
stage directions
a division of an act into smaller parts
scene
sequence of events in chronological order
story line
using figures of speech; symbolic, not literal
figurative
Jim: Haven't you had enough yet?
Bob: MORE! I demand more!
dialogue
a set of papers with writing that will be read and acted out, the text of a play
script
the subject written about in a paragraph or work
topic
comparison using like or as
simile
William Shakespeare
Playwright