Plays & Dramas
The message or lesson of a story.
What is Theme
In poetry, the repetition of sounds at the end of words at the end of a line or verse.
What is a Rhyme
Sound words- "pow" "buzz" "swish"
What is Onomatopoeia.
This can be proven with data, observations, and reliable sources.
What are Facts
an exciting, emotional, or unexpected series of events or set of circumstances. Includes stage directions and dialogue.
What is Drama
A struggle between two opposing forces
What is Conflict
The use of a word or phrase more than one time--used to emphasize.
What is Repetition
Words, phrases, or sentences around a word that help determine unknown word's.
What are Context Clues
This tells a made up story that may or may not be likely to happen in real life.
What is Fiction
a literary editor on the staff of a theater who consults with authors and edits texts.
What is a Playwright.
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Who is an author of a Drama
Words or instructions in a play that are written in italics and enclosed by parenthesis
What are Stage Directions
The feeling created IN THE READER by a literary work or passage.
What is a Mood
Text that explains, describes, or informs
What is Expository.
Where you should look to help you find definitions.
What is a Dictionary.
A story about someone's life
What is a Biography
In a play, the conversation between characters; it advances the plot and reveals conflict.
What is Dialogue
Language that appeals to the five senses.
What is Imagery
Describing a text's main idea, important details, and overall meaning in just a few sentence.
What is a Summary.
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Example - The earth is a green blanket
What is a Metaphor
This method is used to persuade, to inform, and to entertain a wide range of audience who read papers.
What is Writing a Text
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is Point of View.
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Example - The tree danced in the breeze
What is Personification.
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
Example - Elizabeth is as fast as a cheetah.
What is Simile
An educated guess based on evidence in the text combined with your own prior knowledge.
What is Inference.
The use of clues by an author that suggest events that have yet to occur.
What is Foreshadowing.