"Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers" is an example of this.
What is alliteration?
100
This type of poem has 17 syllables in all; 5 in line one, 7 in line two, and 5 in line three.
What is a haiku?
100
This genre of literature has a setting that takes place in the past, and has realistic and fictional parts.
What is historical fiction?
200
A combination of lines grouped together in poetry
What is a stanza?
200
These are written instructions about how actors and actresses should speak their lines or move.
What are stage directions?
200
"He was as cool as a cucumber" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
200
This poem is designed in the shape of the subject of the poem.
What is a concrete poem?
200
The two ways a play is divided into smaller sections.
What is an act and scene?
300
The beat of a poem.
What is rhythm?
300
This is an introductory speech or poem addressed to an audience at the beginning of a play. It is often spoken by the narrator.
What is the prologue?
300
"The waffle jumped out of the toaster" is an example of this.
What is personification?
300
This poem is a short comic verse, typically referring to a famous person.
What is a clerihew?
300
This person has an inactive role in a play, typically standing off to the side of the stage and not interacting with the other characters. Their comments often explain or move along the action of the play.
What is a narrator?
400
Words that end in the same sound.
What is rhyme?
400
This is the background screens or hangings used to create places or setting of plays.
What is scenery?
400
"Bloop! Bow! Bam! Buzz! Moo!" are all examples of this.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
This poem has fourteen lines.
What is a sonnet?
400
This is the conversation between characters in a story or play.
What is dialogue?
500
This occurs when lines repeat several times.
What is repetition?
500
This is a longer, important, dramatic, speech by one character.
What is a monologue?
500
"His legs were stilts" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
500
This is a Japanese poem that has five lines, the first and third of which have 5 syllables and the second, fourth and fifth have 7, making 31 syllables in all and giving a complete picture of an event or mood.