Drama
Poetry
Fiction
Characterization
Name that Genre
100

The instructions that tell the actors what to do on stage.

What are Stage Directions?

100

A group of lines of poetry.

What is a Stanza

100

The time and location that a story takes place.

What is Setting?

100

The central character or hero of the story.

What is a Protangonist?

100

A type of fiction that involves investigation and crime.

What is a Mystery?

200

Divides the play into smaller parts like chapters in a book.

What is an Act?

200

The attitude or general feeling of a piece of writing that is often related to the attitude of the writer or speaker.

What is Tone?

200

The driving force of the story.

What is a Character?

200

The character that is going against the protagonist.

What is an Antogonist?

200

A written work intended to be acted out or performed on stage.

What is a Drama?

300

Divides the acts each time the setting changes.

What is a scene?

300

The array of feelings the work evokes in the reader.

What is Mood?

300

The perspective from which a story is told. (1st, 2nd, 3rd)

What is Point of View?

300

This character stays the same throughout a story.

What is a Static Character?

300
A type of literature written in verse, usually rhyming that is filled with figurative language and imagery.

What is Poetry?

400

Conversations between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.

What is Dialogue?

400

Literary tools used to create a specific effect in a poem such as: Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, Rhyme.

What is Sound Devices?

400

The actions, conflict, and events that take place in a story.

What is Plot?

400

This character changes throughout a story.

What is a Dymanic Character?

400

A type of literature that is created from the imagination.

What is Fiction?

500

A piece of writing found at the beginning of the story that provides background information to the readers about the characters.

What is a Prologue?

500

Descriptive language used to convey meaning in a way that differs from its literal meaning such as: Simile, Metaphors, Personification.

What is Figurative Language?

500

The central idea or author's message in a work of literature. 

What is Theme?

500

A character who is less important than the main character.

What is a subordinate character?

500

A type of literature that is based on facts and real people, places, and events.

What is Non-Fiction?