Characteristics of a Play
A conversation between characters in a play.
What is dialogue?
A comparison between two things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
The central message of a story.
What is theme?
He is the Duke of Athens and a famous figure in mythology.
Who is Theseus?
A fictional society that features unfair laws and suffering.
What is a Dystopia?
A long speech spoken by one character.
What is a monologue?
A comparison between two things without using "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
This is where and when the story takes place.
What is setting?
Ronin and Oberon uses this special substance to make characters in the play fall in love.
What is a love potion?
A desirable and near-perfect society.
What is an utopia?
An instruction in the text of a play that indicates the movement, position, the tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting of the setting.
What are stage directions?
When an object, person, place, or thing represents a greater idea or concept.
What is symbolism?
How the author creates and develops a character.
What is characterization?
This character is the queen of the fairies, who has just adopted a young human child.
Who is Titania?
This is famously know as the "coal district", and the home of Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games.
What is District 12?
A single line of a poem or stanza that follows a rhyme scheme.
What is verse?
Involves the feeling the word elicits from the reader.
What is the connotative meaning of a word?
The struggle between two opposing forces.
What is conflict?
This character was chosen by Hermia's father, Egeus, to marry instead of Lysander.
This is the position Jonas receives in The Giver by Lois Lowry.
What is the receiver of memory?
Writing that does not follow a rhyme scheme. This is just ordinary language from most novels, short stories, articles, etc.
What is prose?
The dictionary definition of the word.
What is denotation?
A struggle within the character’s mind, such as questioning their sense of self and internal desires.
What is internal conflict?
This character gave Lysander a love potion, mistaking him for Demetrius.
Who is Robin?
This character is a teenager who makes Guy Montag question his reality and the value of books.
Who is Clarisse McClellan?