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Play Language
Literary Terms
Types of Characters
Literary Devices
Miscellaneous
100
When a character delivers a short speech to the audience, this speech is inaudible to other characters
What is an aside?
100
extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole
100
Main character
What is a protagonist
100
Conversation between 2 or more characters
What is a dialogue
100
comparison without using like or as
What is metaphor
200
A long speech given my a character to other characters
What is a monologue
200
a humorous play on words
What is a pun
200
A character who is only seen in one side and has undeveloped traits
What is a flat character
200
The feeling the reader gets while reading the story
What is mood
200
giving human characteristics to animals or others that do not have human characteristics
What is personification
300
When a character delivers a long speech in their mind and inaudible to other chracters
What is a soliloquy
300
the character who works against the protagonist in the story
What is an antagonist
300
Character that is fully developed and is dynamic
What is a round character
300
The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
What is irony
300
Naming a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with it- (buzz, crunch, chirp)
What is onomatopoeia
400
Directions on how to carry on a play
What are stage directions
400
comparison using like or as
What is a simile
400
A character who changes little throughout the story
What is a static character
400
the use of sensory details to paint a picture for the reader- (the blazing white light burned my eyes)
What is imagery
400
a figure of speech that cannot be taken literally- (she was feeling under the weather)
What is idiom
500
Drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance
What is a tragedy
500
A form of meter that consists of 5 unstressed syllables each followed by a stressed syllable
What is iambic pentameter
500
Character who usually the opposite of the protagonist
What is a foil character
500
contradictory (opposite) terms appear side by side- (civil war; awfully good; jumbo shrimp)
What is oxymoron
500
A word or phrase that has become overly familiar or commonplace- (No pain, no gain)
What is cliche