The people in a play, narrative, or biography. Who or what the story is about.
Who are characters?
100
A technique that creates sounds in the reader's mind. The poet may use words like sizzle, zip, and boom.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
Lines spoken by the actors.
What is dialogue?
100
In poetry the lines act like sentences and the stanzas act like...
What are paragraphs?
100
The line in a persuasive/argumentative paper that states the author's opinion on the subject.
What is a thesis statement?
200
Water represents life, rose represents love, fire represents power, the American flag represents the USA. These are examples of what?
What is a symbol?
200
A form of repetition where the poet repeats the first consonant letter of a word for effect.
What is alliteration?
200
When a character in a play says something to the audience that the characters in the play do not hear.
What is an aside?
200
A structure in which the poet arranges the stanzas with a repeating or predictable pattern.
What is fixed form?
200
Authority, Emotion, and Logic are types of arguments for which type of writing?
What is persuasive writing?
300
This is the most intense moment of a story (part of the plot).
What is climax?
300
Language that goes beyond the dictionary meaning of words. It is imaginative and suggestive rather than literal.
What is figurative language?
300
A situation in which the audience knows more than the characters on stage know - the audience is aware of something that adds meaning to what the character says or does without the character realizing this.
What is dramatic irony?
300
Poetry that tells a story.
What is a narrative poem?
300
When an ad appeals to a person's feelings. Ex. "Buy life insurance - for the people who matter in your life."
What is an appeal to emotion or an emotional argument?
400
A central idea, message, or insight of a literary work.
What is theme?
400
An exaggeration used for effect.
What is hyperbole?
400
Notes within a drama that directs movement of the characters to places on the stage.
What are stage directions?
400
Poetry that lacks structure. For example, April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring.
What is free form?
400
When evidence is presented for a reader to make an informed decision.
What is an appeal to logic or a logical argument?
500
The part of plot that introduces the characters and setting.
What is exposition?
500
Rather, let us say, his whole body was a grimace. This is an example of what?
What is metaphor?
500
A long speech addressed to the audience, rather than other characters in the play.
What is a soliloquy?
500
Always contains 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
500
An argument or set of reasons put forward to oppose an idea or theory developed in another argument.