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Poetry
Drama
Fiction
Non Fiction
Learn by Example
100
A comparison of one thing to another using "like" or "as".
What is Simile
100
A secondary arrangement of incidents involving secondary characters.
What is a Subplot
100
A hint or suggestion in the text regarding future events that the characters will face.
What is FORESHADOWING
100
These are the four types of essays.
What are Narrative, Expository, Persuasive and, Argumentative
100
"Baby you're a firework, go on show them what your worth"
What is Metaphor
200
A comparison of one thing to another without using "like" or "as"
What is Metaphor
200
A serious play that dramatizes the disastrous downfall of the central character(s)
What is a Tragedy
200
A narrative written about a character using "he", "she", "they", etc.
What is Third Person Narrative
200
Is a type of expository essay which examines a story, poem, or dramatic piece.
What is a Literary Essay?
200
"I would walk five hundred miles and I would walk five hundred more, just to be the man who walked a thousand miles to fall down at your door"
What is Hyperbole
300
The use of similar consonant sounds at the beginning of words in a line of poetry
What is Alliteration?
300
A stage whisper or "behind the hand" comment. Directed to another character or the audience.
What is an Aside
300
The main character or hero in a play, novel, or story.
What is the Protagonist
300
Compares something less familiar with something more familiar in order to help the reader understand the former.
What is an Analogy
300
"Time grabs you by the wrist; directs you where to go"
What is Personification?
400
A type of lyric poem written in 14 lines of Iambic Pentameter.
What is a Sonnet
400
Planning how characters, props, and furniture will be placed or moved on stage.
What is Blocking
400
The place and time in which a story, drama, or film is set.
What is Setting
400
A type of writing which reflects the thought process of the writer.
What is Stream of Consciousness
400
"You're the fastest runner, but your not allowed to win." "Doctor says your cured, but you still feel the pain."
What is Irony
500
A statement which, on first reading, appears to be self-contradictory, but which on closer examination, proves to be true.
What is an Oxymoron
500
A situation in which the audience knows something that the character(s) on stage does not.
What is Dramatic Irony?
500
These 5 elements make up the structure of a plot.
What are Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Denoument or Resolution?
500
An account of a person's life written by some one else AND an account of a person's life written by that person.
What are Biography and Autobiography?
500
"Crazy mother trucker, undercover lover."
What is Consonance