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Figurative Language
Drama
100
What literary term can be defined as the person telling the story?
What is the narrator?
100
The part of the plot where the greatest action or suspense occurs is known as what?
What is the climax?
100
What literary term is defined as a person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work?
What is a character?
100
"The boy ran like the wind" is an example of what literary term?
What is a simile?
100

A small division of a play meant to show a change of time or place

What is a scene?

200
The view from which a story is being told is known as what literary term?
What is point of view?
200
The part of the plot where the action begins is known as what?
What is the rising action?
200
The time and place of the action in a literary work is known as what?
What is the setting?
200
"Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly" is an example of what literary term?
What is a metaphor?
200

The part of the play that is not spoken but tells actors what to do and how to speak or act.

What are stage directions?

300
When a character in the story tells the story, this is which point of view?
What is first person point of view?
300
The part of the plot where the action is starting to come to a close is known as what?
What is the falling action?
300
What literary term can be defined as the sequence of events in a literary work?
What is the plot?
300
When something nonhuman is given human characteristics, this is known as what literary term?
What is personification?
300

A major division of a play to help organize the drama; it consists of one or more scenes.

What is an act?

400
When an unknown person outside of the story tells the story from a limited viewpoint, this is what point of view?
What is third person point of view?
400
The part of the plot where all "loose ends" are tied up and the problem(s) have been solved is known as what?
What is the resolution?
400
Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses is known as what?
What is sensory imagery?
400
A contradiction between what is expected and what happens in reality or between what is said and what is really meant describes what literary term?
What is irony?
400

The words spoken by actors in a drama while alone on stage; meant to show character's inner thoughts.

What is a soliloquy?

500
When a person outside the story tells the story and seems all-knowing, this is known as which point of view?
What is omniscient point of view?
500
The part of the plot where the characters, setting, and conflict are introduced is known as what?
What is the exposition?
500
The central message or insight to life revealed through a literary work is the definition of which literary term?
What is theme.
500
A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement such as, "It's a thousand degrees in this classroom," is an example of what literary term?
What is a hyperbole?
500

A type of play that is serious in nature and leads to the downfall of the protagonist.

What is a tragedy?