The highest point of action or turning point in a play.
What is the climax?
100
Comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as."
Example: Her smile is like the sun.
What is a simile?
100
When the author gives the audience hints about what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
100
The name of Shakespeare's most famous play. (Hint: The names of two people.)
What is "Romeo & Juliet?"
100
The person in a story who opposes the main character.
Who is the antagonist?
200
The main problem a character faces in a play.
What is the conflict?
200
Comparing two unlike things WITHOUT using "like" or "as."
Example: That child is a monster!
What is a metaphor?
200
The main character in a story.
Who is the protagonist?
200
These were not allowed to act on stage during Shakespeare's time.
What are women?
200
Repeating the same consonant sounds in writing.
Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
What is alliteration?
300
The beginning of a play where we are given the setting and characters.
What is the introduction/exposition?
300
Giving human qualities to inanimate objects, animals, or concepts.
Example: Love is blind.
What is personification?
300
The words characters speak to one another. (Hint: In a story, these words appear inside of quotes.)
What is dialogue?
300
Shakespeare was born and lived in this country.
What is England?
300
Another word for the point of view a story is written in.
What is perspective?
400
The point in the play where the main problem is solved.
What is the resolution?
400
An extreme exaggeration.
Example: I've told you a million times to clean your room!
What is a hyperbole?
400
When an event from the past is inserted into the middle of a story.
What is a flashback?
400
The type of play Shakespeare was best known for. (Hint: Not a comedy, but a __________)
What is tragedy?
400
The author's main message in a story, usually meant to teach the reader a moral lesson.
What is a theme?
500
The happy or sad ending in a play.
What is the denouement?
500
Using words to imitate sounds.
Example: Crash! Boom! Pow!
What is onomatopoeia?
500
When the opposite of what the reader expects to happen occurs.
What is irony?
500
The name of Shakespeare's wife. (Hint: Also the name of a famous actress who starred in "The Princess Diaries," "The Devil Wears Prada," and "The Dark Knight Rises."
Who is Anne Hathaway?
500
A reference made in a story to another literary work, person, or event in history.