Show:
Conflicts
Terms
Figurative Language
Drama
Drama, Too
100
A conflict that puts the main character at odds with an outside force.
What is external conflict
100
The central message or generalization about life.
What is theme
100
Comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as".
What is simile
100
The written form of a play, tv show, film, or radio show.
What is script
100
Information provided by the playwright to give actors instructions on how to feel or what to do when certain lines are spoken
What is stage directions
200
The Greasers are looked down on because they are from "the wrong side of the tracks."
What is man vs society
200
The interruption of action to present events that took place at an earlier time.
What is flashback
200
Giving human qualities to animals and non living things
What is personification
200
The person who oversees the entire process of staging a production.
What is director
200
Story in dialogue form to be acted out by actors before a live audience
What is play
300
A conflict that occurs within a character.
What is internal conflict.
300
The feeling the reader gets from writing.
What is mood
300
Comparison of two unlike things
What is metaphor
300
A character used to provide a strong contrast to the protagonist
What is foil character
300
The conversation between actors on the stage.
What is dialogue
400
The main character in a story.
What is protagonist
400
Exaggeration for emphasis
What is hyperbole
400
Remarks made to the audience or another character that the other characters on stage don't hear.
What is asides
400
A person who writes plays.
What is playwright
500
Flames engulfed the house as Bobby raced to try to put them out.
What is man vs nature
500
The character at odds with the protagonist.
What is antagonist
500
Words that make the sound that they represent
What is onomatopoeia
500
Speech spoken on stage by a single actor to other actors on stage.
What is monologue