Fiction Terms
Drama Terms
Poetry Terms
100
the perspective from which a story is told

What is point of view?

100

main division of a play

What is an act?

100

when a word sounds like the sound it makes

What is onomatopoeia?
200

who is telling the story

What is narrator?

200

smaller division of a play

What is a scene?

200

repetition of vowel sounds

What is assonance?

300

where and when a story takes place

What is the setting?

300

movable objects on stage

What is/are props?

300
an address to something that cannot answer
What is an apostrophe?
400

main character

What is the protagonist?

400

used on stage to indicate location or time

What is scenery?

400

repetition of initial sounds of words

What is alliteration?
500
why a character does what he/she does
What is motivation?
500

Aristotle's word for the audience's complete experience watching a play

What is spectacle?

500

comparison using "like" or "as"

What is a simile?