This is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. For example, Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
What is alliteration?
100
This is sometimes called the turning point of the story. It is where the story changes and the problem will be resolved one way or the other.
What is the climax?
100
These are instructions for actors and stage crew, usually set in italics.
What are stage directions?
100
This is a character trait that describes someone who is shy.
What is timid?
100
This is a literary genre based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact.
What is fiction?
200
This is an elaborate exaggeration. An example of this type of figurative language is, "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."
What is a hyperbole?
200
This is the main problem in the story. It can be explained as man versus man, man versus nature, man versus self, and man versus society.
What is the conflict?
200
This is the person who is telling the story.
Who is the narrator?
200
This is a character trait that describes someone who has sympathy for others.
What is compassionate?
200
This is when an author uses clues to suggest events that will happen later in the plot.
What is foreshadowing?
300
This is a comparison between two things that does not use like or as.
The nightmare was a wild stallion as it rain through the delicate child's sleeping mind.
What is a metaphor?
300
This is the part of the story (usually the beginning) which explains the background and setting of the story. The characters are often introduced.
What is the exposition?
300
This is a conversation between two persons or actors.
What is dialogue?
300
This is a character trait used to describe someone who feels good about him/herself.
What is confident?
300
This is similar to a paragraph, but it is found in a poem.
What is a stanza?
400
This is a comparison between two things that uses like or as.
She was as quiet as a mouse and as cunning as a cat.
What is a simile?
400
This is the ending or final outcome of a story.
What is the resolution?
400
These are items on the stage that actors use. They give clues about the setting of the play.
What are props?
400
This is a character trait that describes someone who thinks they are better than other people. A synonym is snobby.
What is arrogant?
400
These are words and phrases that create imagery by using the five senses.
What are sensory details?
500
These are words that represent sounds like "bam" and "boom".
What is an onomatopoeia?
500
This is the central part of the story during which various problems arise, leading up to the climax.
What is rising action?
500
This is the person who wrote the play or drama.
Who is the playwright?
500
This means that a character does not like to spend a lot of money.
What is frugal?
500
This word means to follow rules or customs, often in an exact and proper way.