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Poetry/Drama
Literary Elements
Figurative Language
Genres
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100
Words or instructions in a play that are written in italics and enclosed by parenthesis
What are stage directions
100
The message or lesson of a story
What is theme
100
Example - The tree danced in the breeze
What is personification
100
Set in the past and involves real people, places, or significant events in history-
What is historical fiction?
100
Type of conflict that takes place between a character and an outside force-
What is a external conflict?
200
In a play, the conversation between characters; it advances the plot and reveals conflict.
What is dialogue
200
An interruption in a story to describe an earlier event-
What is flashback?
200
Example - The earth is a green blanket
What is a metaphor
200
Includes stage directions and dialogue
What is drama
200
The reason that the author is writing the book, article, or story-
What is author's purpose?
300
The repetition of sounds at the end of words
What is rhyme
300
The perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view
300
Example - Elizabeth is as fast as a cheetah.
What is a simile
300
Set in the modern present with human characters and story's plot could actually happen in the real world-
What is realistic fiction?
300
Describing a text's main idea, important details, and overall meaning in just a few sentences.
What is summarizing
400
The use of a word or phrase more than one time--used to emphasize.
What is repetition
400
A struggle between two opposing forces
What is conflict
400
Sound words- "pow" "buzz" "swish"
What is onomatopoeia
400
Nonfiction text that explains, describes, or informs
What is informational?
400
Can be proven with data, observations, and reliable sources
What is a factual claim
500
What do you call a group of lines in a poem?
What is a stanza?
500
The feeling created IN THE READER by a literary work or passage
What is mood
500
Language that appeals to the 5 senses
What is imagery
500
A story about someone's life
What is a biography
500
Which rhetorical fallacy is a personal attack?
Ad hominem