Show:
What's with all the drama?
Verse and Rhyme
Just the Facts
Figuratively Speaking
Say it Right
100
A work of literature intended to be performed on stage.
What is DRAMA?
100
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is ALLITERATION?
100
Writing that is based on facts.
What is NONFICTION?
100
Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
100
A word that can replace a noun.
What is a PRONOUN?
200
A serious play that ends in disaster and sorrow.
What is TRAGEDY?
200
A poem that tells a story.
What is a NARRATIVE POEM?
200
Nonfiction writing that explains or informs.
What is INFORMATIONAL/EXPOSITION?
200
Extreme Exaggeration
What is HYPERBOLE?
200
Objects linked together that are similar in tense and number.
What is PARALLELISM?
300
A lighthearted play intended to amuse the audience.
What is COMEDY?
300
The patterns of rhymes in a poem.
What is RHYME SCHEME?
300
Writing with the purpose to convince people to think or act in a certain way.
What is PERSUASIVE WRITING?
300
A comparison NOT using like or as.
What is a METAPHOR?
300
This occurs when two forms of negation are used in the same clause.
What is a DOUBLE NEGATIVE?
400
When the audience knows more that the actors on stage.
What is DRAMATIC IRONY?
400
Poetry that expresses a person's thoughts or feelings. EX: a song
What is a LYRIC POEM?
400
First person account of a time in the writer's life.
What is a MEMOIR?
400
Using words to imitate sounds.
What is ONOMATOPOEIA?
400
The punctuation used to combine two closely related independent clauses.
What is a SEMICOLON (;)?
500
When a character speaks directly to the audience with the idea that the other characters can not hear.
What is ASIDE?
500
Poetry that follows no specific guidelines about rhyme, meter, or length.
What is FREE FORM/VERSE?
500
First person account of a person's entire life to the present.
What is an AUTOBIOGRAPHY?
500
Quirky sayings or expressions.
What is an IDIOM?
500
When the subject and verb of a sentence are the same number (singular or plural).
What is SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT?