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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
MORE POV
ACTING TERMS
VOICE
SCRIPTS
100
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
100
This element of a story should never be examined in order to decide the point of view.
What is dialogue?
100
Where you look
What is focus?
100
Red leather, yellow leather.
What is a tongue twister?
100
A catchy opening.
What do you include in your introduction?
200
The wind sang through the trees.
What is personification?
200
Look for thinking and feeling verbs
How do you tell when a third person narrator sees into the mind of a character?
200
These should be believable movements you would do in real life.
What are gestures?
200
A dome shaped muscle under your lungs.
What is the diaphragm?
200
Excessive description.
What can you cut from a story?
300
He was struck with Cupid's arrow.
What is an allusion?
300
The narrator is a character inside the story.
What is first person and 2nd person point of view (when 2nd person is the narrator)?
300
The back of the stage.
What is upstage?
300
The rate at which you speak.
What is pace?
300
Dots that are put in place of the words or phrases that have been cut out.
What is an ellipsis?
400
He laughed so loudly that the rafters of the house shook.
What is hyperole?
400
When the narrator is the co-star of the story.
What is often a reliable first person point of view narrator?
400
Project yourself into someone else's shoes so that you can feel what they are feeling.
What is empathy.
400
Where your voice falls on the musical scale?
What is pitch?
400
You can never take this with you for the poetry or narrative performances.
What is your script?
500
It was an amicable divorce.
What is an oxymoron?
500
"The position from which something or someone is observed” from the New Oxford American Dictionary
What is point of view?
500
Aspects of our short stories we considered in order to turn a piece written to be read into something ready to be performed.
What are who, what, when, where, and why?
500
When you vocally highlight certain words in order to bring out the meaning of a sentence.
What is emphasis?
500
To whom you always direct your attention throughout any solo performance.
What is the audience?