The use of words to create vivid pictures and sensory experiences in the minds of the audience
What is imagery?
100
The group of people who read a story or watch a drama
What is the audience?
100
A struggle between two opposing forces
What is conflict?
100
Example:
"Juliet is the sun."
What is metaphor?
200
This type of character experiences an important change due to his or her experiences in a story.
What is dynamic?
200
Words whose sound echoes their meaning
What is onomatopoeia?
200
Words spoken by one character on stage to the audience, without other characters on stage being able to hear
What is an aside?
200
The person who "tells" the story to the readers.
What is the narrator?
200
Creative language that is not meant to be taken literally; includes simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and idioms
What is figurative language?
300
The main character in a story with whom the audience identifies in some way.
What is the protagonist?
300
A form of literature that uses the sounds of words and figurative language to express emotions or retell events
What is poetry?
300
Conversations between characters in a story or play
What is dialogue?
300
In this part of the story, the "loose ends" are tied up and the conflict is settled.
What is the resolution (denouement)?
300
Example:
The thunder boomed like a bass drum in the distance.
What is simile?
400
The process by which an author reveals a character's personality to the audience
What is characterization?
400
The emotion or feeling that a word creates
What is connotation?
400
A character, alone on stage, delivers a long speech to the audience, revealing his or her secret thoughts and feelings.
What is soliloquy?
400
The narrator's position in relation to the characters and the events of the story
What is point of view?
400
Example:
The wind whispered through the tall grass.
What is personification?
500
EXAMPLE:
Billy is six years old and lives in Arizona. He has blond hair and brown eyes. He is very smart and likes to play sports, but he is not good at following directions.
What is direct characterization?
500
A poetic form that uses 14 lines of iambic pentameter in a strict rhyme scheme to express a deep emotion or a revelation about life; made popular by Shakespeare.
What is sonnet?
500
The purge of the audience's built-up emotions that occurs at the end of a tragedy.
What is catharsis?
500
The central message about life or human experience in a story, poem, or play.
What is theme?
500
Figurative language that uses extreme exaggeration to make a point.