Elements of Drama
A major section of a play.
What is an act?
The introduction of setting, characters, and situation.
Who is exposition?
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
A group of lines in a poem, set apart by spacing.
What is a stanza?
Descriptive writing that appeals to the senses.
Narrator is a character in the story.
What is first person?
Repeating beginning consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
The main character of a story
Who is the protagonist?
What is said is the opposite of what is meant.
What is verbal irony?
A genre that takes place in a believable modern setting.
What is realistic fiction?
The chain of events in a story.
What is plot?
A smaller part of a play where the time or place changes.
What is a scene?
The part where the conflict builds.
What is rising action?
A direct comparison without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
A pair of lines that rhyme.
What is a couplet?
Clues that suggest what might happen later.
What is foreshadowing?
Narrator is outside the story but focuses on one character's thoughts.
What is third person limited?
Repeating vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
The person or force working against the protagonist.
Who is the antagonist?
What happens is the opposite of what is expected.
What is situational irony?
A genre with futuristic settings or technology.
What is science fiction?
What is an archetype?
The written text of a play.
What is a script?
The most intense or exciting moment.
What is climax?
An exaggeration that can't possibly be true.
What is hyperbole?
Rhymes at the end of lines.
What are end rhymes?
A sudden return to an earlier event.
What is a flashback?
Narrator knows everything about all characters.
What is third person omniscient?
Repeating consonant sounds.
What is consonance?
What is direct characterization?
When the reader knows something a character doesn't.
What is dramatic irony?
A genre set in the past, often with real events.
What is historical fiction?
A truth about life revealed in a story.
What is theme?
What are stage directions?
Events after the climax leading to resolution.
What is falling action?
Giving human traits to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
Rhymes inside lines of poetry.
What are internal rhymes?
A repeated phrase or line in a poem.
What is a refrain?
Adjectives that describe a character internally.
What are character traits?
Words that imitate sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
When the author shows what a character is like.
What is indirect characterization?
The writer's attitude toward the subject.
What is tone?
A genre involving magical or imaginary worlds.
What is fantasy?
A dramatic pause of uncertainty or anxiety.
What is suspense?
A character's spoken dialogue.
What is a line?
How the story ends and the conflict is resolved.
What is the resolution?
A group of words with a different meaning than the literal one.
What is an idiom?
Lines that almost rhyme.
What is a partial rhyme?
An object or words that represents an idea.
What is symbolism?
A character who does not change.
What is static character?
Words whose final syllables sound exactly the same.
What are complete rhymes?
A character who undergoes a significant inner change.
What is a dynamic character?
The atmosphere or emotional feeling of a story.
What is mood?
A folktale that explains something about the world or nature.
What is a myth?
A single line of a poem.
What is a verse?