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Poetry
Julius Caesar
Short Stories
Characterization
Figurative Language
100
A three-lined poetic format in which the first and third lines contain 5 syllables and the second line contains 7 syllables. Often they convey vivid emotions through the use of images from nature.
What is a haiku
100
A speech by a character who is alone on stage which reveals their thoughts or emotions.
What is a soliloquy
100
A struggle involving a force outside a character.
What is conflict
100
What type of characterization is used in the following: Sarah was born to be a nurse. Her compassion and tender ability to help others first emerged when she was 13. That’s when she began to take care of her mother who had been stricken with ALS. Sarah’s kindness and gentleness are a rare gift.
What is direct characterization-The reader is told that Sarah is compassionate, tender, kind, gentle, and a born nurse
100
What type of figurative language is the following: I lost my freedom for free room and board / like a monkey in a zoo
What is a simile
200
A poetic form with 5 lines in anapestic trimeter and a rhyme scheme of AABBA
What is a limerick
200
A long speech revealing a character’s thoughts and emotions, directed towards, or with, other characters on stage.
What is a monologue
200
Each day when you force yourself to get out of bed you are facing this type of conflict
What is internal conflict (person vs. self)
200
What type of characterization is used in the following: “The patient boy and the quiet girl were both well mannered and did not disobey their mother.”
What is direct characterization
200
What type of figurative language is the following: For if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly.
What is a metaphor
300
The repetition of vowel sounds within the words of a line of poetry.
What is assonance
300
A short speech spoken to the audience in an undertone so as to suggest that the other characters on stage cannot hear it
What is an aside
300
A feeling of growing curiosity or of anxious uncertainty about what will happen next in a piece of literature.
What is suspense
300
What type of characterization is used in the following: “Julie held up six different outfits in front of the mirror and pondered which would go best with her navy blue shoes, pastel eye shadow and the diamond earrings she’d already procured from her overflowing vanity. After ninety minutes of mixing and matching, and cell-phoning her sister three times for advice, Julie finally made up her mind.”
What is indirect characterization
300
What type of figurative language is the following: “From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.”
What is onomatopoeia
400
A poetic line containing five feet with a pattern of a unstressed--stressed syllables.
What is iambic pentameter
400
In many Shakespearean plays, the main character’s moral weakness, inability to cope with the world, or one of their specific character shortcomings which lead to their downfall is called their
What is a tragic flaw
400
When what happens in a story is the opposite of what was expected, often creating an amusing contradiction.
What is situational irony
400
What type of characterization is used in the following: “Fran, she is a bully!” Julie commented. “She’s bad, mean, everything that is not good! If she sees little kids playing, she’ll go over there and pick on them. She doesn’t care what happens to them. She throws pencils at people from the back of the room, and talks about everyone!”
What is indirect characterization--Another character reveals to the reader what Fran is like.
400
What type of figurative language is the following: Her head was so full of ideas that it was ready to burst wide open.
What is hyperbole
500
Words and phrases that are used to create comparisons, add freshness, and add creativity to writing is known as
What is imagery
500
A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow or death is known as a(n)
What is a tragedy
500
When the reader or audience known things that the characters in the story are unaware of.
What is dramatic irony
500
Indirect characterization can be achieved in 5 ways symbolized with the acronym BOATS. What are the "BOATS"
What is body language, other character's reactions, actions, thoughts, speech
500
What type of figurative language is the following: “Oreo: Milk’s favorite cookie.”
What is personification