What is a play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end ?
100
Imagery
Visually descriptive or figurative language
100
Foreshadowing
What is a warning or indication of (a future event)?
100
Chorus
What is it called when a group says things at the same time ?
100
Couplet
What are two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; couplets often signal the EXIT of a character or end of a scene
200
Irony
What is it called when something is humorous based on contradiction?
200
Iambic Pentameter
What is a five-beat poetic line?
200
Dynamic Character
What are characters called when they change as a result of the story’s events?
200
Static Character
What are characters called when they do not change much in the course of a story?
200
Monologue
What is a speech by one character in a play?
300
Simile
What is figurative language that draws comparison?
300
Metaphor
What is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable?
300
Personification
What is the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form?
300
Alliteration
What is the use of similar consonants in a word?
300
Dramatic Irony
What is it called when the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know ?
400
Iambic Pentameter
What is a five-beat poetic line?
400
Oxymoron
What is a combination of contradictory terms (EX: jumbo shrimp)?
400
Foil
What is it called when a character is used as a contrast to another character; writer sets off/intensifies the qualities of 2 characters this way ?
400
Pun
What is a play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings ?
400
Pun
What is a play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings ?
500
Allusion
What is an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference?
500
Alliteration
What is the use of similar consonants?
500
Soliloquy
What is an unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud ?
500
Allusion
What is an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference?
500
Soliloquy
What is an unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud?