Elements of Drama
Person who writes a play
Playwright
Division of a poem composed of two or more lines (similar to a paragraph)
Stanza
A comparison of two things using the words like or as
Simile
The use of the same words or phrases repeated to create emphasis
Repetition
The feeling the reader gets from reading the author's words
Mood
Actions that are performed (often written in italics and parenthesis)
Stage Directions
Two words or lines that end in the same sound
Rhyme
A figure of speech in which a thing - an idea or an animal - is given human characteristics
Personification
An extreme exaggeration used to make a point
Hyperbole
A form of poetry that tells a story
Narrative Poetry
Written in dialogue, divided into scenes/acts, has characters, and a narrator tells the story
Script
The pattern of rhyming lines
Rhyme Scheme
An expression that means something other than its literal meaning
Idiom
“They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” is an example of what type of figurative language?
Alliteration
The writer's attitude about a subject
Tone
The famous playwright who wrote Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth
William Shakespeare
the voice behind the poem - the person we imagine to be saying the poem out loud
Speaker
I love you to the moon and back is an example of what type of figurative language
Hyperbole
In the Disney animated film Beauty and the Beast, viewers know that the Beast is actually a prince who was once very handsome, but Belle has no idea that this is the case. What type of figurative language is this?
Irony
The crisp, golden leaves fell from the trees like a shower of whispered secrets, blanketing the ground in a quilt of autumn's embrace is an example of what type of figurative language?
Imagery
A literary device used to give an indication or hint of what is to come later in the story
Foreshadowing
A short emotionally expressive poem with a songlike quality that is narrated in the first person
Lyrical Poetry
Dead Man Walking is an example of what type of figurative language
Oxymoron
The computer in the classroom was an old dinosaur is an example of what type of figurative language?
Metaphor
Late at night, it got so frigid that all spoken words froze solid before they could be heard is what type of figurative language?
Personification