A story written to be performed by actors on a stage
What is a drama?
100
A comparison between two unlike things that uses like or as
What is a simile?
100
The series of events in a story
What is plot?
100
to briefly retell the main events or ideas of a piece of writing
What is summarizing?
200
Resons and evidence that help prove the claim
What are supports?
200
A playwright’s written instructions about how actors should move and behave. They also explain how the stage should look and where props (items used in the play) are located.
What are stage directions?
200
Repetition of a consonant within a line or between lines.
What is alliteration?
200
Introduces the setting, characters, and sets up or hints at the conflict
What is exposition?
200
Must be told in the order the events unfold, must not give unimportant details, must not contain an opinion, must be wriiten in complete sentences in paragraph form
What is a good summary?
300
a claim based on information that is incorrect, biased, or simply does not make sense
What is faulty reasoning?
300
A section in a play in which all of the events occur in one place at one time.
What is a scene?
300
Zip, Bang, Boom, Pow, Zip
What are examples of onomatopoeia?
300
the main character makes a decision or takes an action that makes the outcome of the conflict clear
What is the climax (turning point)?
300
the reason an author is writing is often not directly stated but is suggested by evidence in the text
What is author's purpose?
400
"Research scientists", "studies", "test results"
What is evidence to support a claim?
400
A character makes a brief remark, either to the audience or another character that others on stage do not hear.
What is an aside?
400
the use of creative comparisons to describe familiar things in new ways
What is figurative language?
400
A struggle between opposing forces
What is conflict?
400
the most important idea a writer communicates, can be directly stated in the first or last sentence of a paragraph or the first or last paragraph of a selection