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Literary Devices
Character
Drama Terms
Literature and Writing
Hodge Podge
100
The repetition of consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
100
A character that we do not get to know very well.
What is a flat character?
100
When a character speaks his/her inner thoughts for the benefit of the audience.
What is a soliloquy?
100
It's true, it's true.
What is non-fiction?
100
The character who is against the main character.
What is the antagonist?
200
The use of extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
200
A character that changes throughout the course of a story.
What is a dynamic character?
200
When a character turns to address the audience during the course of a play.
What is an aside?
200
Writing whose purpose is to explain something.
What is expository writing?
200
A character who does not change much during a story.
What is a static character?
300
A sound device where a word imitates the sounds; words are spelled like they sound.
What is Onomatopoeia?
300
Romeo is an example of this type of character; we get to know a good deal about him.
What is a round character?
300
A character who is created as an opposite of another character.
What is a foil?
300
Writing whose purpose it is to convince.
What is persuasive writing?
300
The two types of characteristics we discuss when talking about characters.
What is personality and physical?
400
An example would be "The stars smiled and danced across the sky."
What is Personification?
400
The person telling the story.
What is the narrator?
400
The beginning of a play or act. Provides information for the audience and acts as a hook.
What is prologue?
400
News stories, historical, scientific, and technical writings are this type of writing.
What is informational?
400
The pattern of rhymes in a poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
500
An example would be "He is a ray of sunshine on a dark and dreary day."
What is metaphor?
500
The main character in the story; "p..., p..., p..."
What is the protagonist.
500
The words written in a play that are not read, but serve to guide and instruct the actors and directors.
What is stage direction?
500
The first stage of the writing process.
What is pre-writing?
500
A poem that Shakespeare made famous; 14 lines, 10 syllables per line.
What is a sonnet?