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Poetry, Oh Noetry
Fiction, that's fake
Words with meaning
Structural Stuff
The Stage
100
A song is nothing more that a ______ set to music.
What is a poem?
100
The central character in a story.
What is the protagonist?
100
The main opponent in a story.
What is the antagonist?
100
The type of structural text that contains steps.
What is listing or sequencing?
100
Passages of speech between characters in a play.
What is dialouge?
200
Slowly now the silent moon/ walks the night in her silver shoe. Is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
200
The moment of greatest tension.
What is the climax?
200
a Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, reflects on some aspect of nature.
What is Haiku?
200
A text that examines the similarities and differences in two or more topics.
What is compare and contrast?
200
Long speech by a single actor. The speech is generally made by the actor as if speaking to himself and is revealing of his or her thoughts or feelings.
What is a monologe?
300
A long narrative poem, usually chronicling the deeds of a folk hero and written using both dramatic and narrative literary techniques.
What is epic poetry?
300
A scene re-lived.
What is a flashback?
300
a subtle comparison in which the author describes a person or thing using words that are not meant to be taken literally
What is a metaphor?
300
A text that describes a topic in detail.
What is description?
300
The plan or arrangement of incidents in a play.
What is plot?
400
When I was a young girl well, I had me a cowboy He weren't much to look at, just free rambling man But that was a long time and no matter how I try The years just flow by like a broken down dam. Angel from Montgomery – John Prine Has an example of what sort of figurative language.
What is a similie?
400
the speaker's meaning that is opposite from the usual meaning of the words
What is irony?
400
the repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of two or more adjacent words or stressed syllables
What is alliteration?
400
A text that identifies a cause or causes that lead to specific results or effects.
What is Cause and Effect?
400
Introductory speech or poem that introduced the play and explained or commented on the action which was to take place
What is the prologue?
500
Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson - The Concord Hymn Is this sort of figurative language?
What is hyperbole?
500
The idea or insight the entire story reveals
What is the theme?
500
a term or phrase that has strong emotional overtones and that is meant to evoke strong reactions beyond the specific meaning
What is a Loaded term?
500
A text that presents a problem and then offers one or more possible solutions.
What is Problem and Solution?
500
Indications in a script for entrances and exits, and for movement in relation to the set within a particular scene.
What is stage direction?