The element that is not necessary in a story or novel
What is dialogue?
100
A form of poetry that uses repetition
What is villanelle, sestina, triolet, rondeau, pantoum
100
A question the audience asks at the beginning that hooks their interest
What is dramatic question?
100
A piece of writing that tells its story through letters, telegrams, and emails
What is an epistolary story?
100
an example of this: red rose
What is "concrete imagery"?
200
The time, scents, sounds, temperature and visual distinctions in which a story happens
What is setting?
200
"amount" and "about"
What is slant rhyme?
200
Something that happens before the play starts to set up a conflict
What is an inciting incident?
200
The words a character uses that are particular to him/her
What are idiolects?
200
A type of poetry that uses identifiable patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables
What is metered poetry?
300
A man tries to escape his fate, only to fulfill it (example)
A type of conflict in which there is a lot at stake for the character(s)
What is Big Trouble?
300
An element of poetry that prose poetry does not use
What is line?
300
An approach used in serious plays to relieve the tension
What is comic relief?
300
When a first draft has been finished and is ready to be seen by a reader
What is "door open ready"?
300
an illusion or fabrication of the mind
What is "chimera"?
400
“All those students are going to get arrested!” She said.
What is incorrect dialogue formatting?
400
What Denise Levertov says a line break is equal to.
What is half a comma?
400
A basic situation, a conflict or struggle and an outcome, all in capsule form
What is a concept or pitch?
400
The reason Stephen King says writers need to read a lot.
What is "you're less apt to make a fool of yourself when writing"?
400
an example of this foot: "A boat"
What is iambic?
500
Luella thought she saw an ice cream truck turn the corner toward her house._________________________________
The ice cream truck driver saw a pretty girl and thought he might offer her a discount on drumsticks.
What is an example of third- person omniscient point of view?
500
The 5 ways to mute rhyme.
What is enjambment, slant rhyme, informal tone, separate rhyming lines, capitalize at the beginning of sentences rather than each line?
500
What the script needs when actions cannot be determined by the situation and what is said.
What are stage directions?
500
1. Describe the person directly 2. Through description of what the characters say and do
3. Through the way characters react to each other.
What are the 3 ways to communicate information about a character?
500
A complex, literary poem that offers fresh insights and new ways of looking at life