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Reading Terms
Poetry Terms
Drama Terms
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The problem a character faces. It can be internal or external.
What is conflict?
100
The pattern in which a poem rhymes.
What is rhyme scheme?
100
Plays are broken down into Scenes and these.
What are Acts?
200
When a character has to make a tough decision using their sense of right and wrong
What is moral dilemma?
200
A paragraph in poetry.
What is a stanza?
200
When a character is alone on stage, speaking directly to the audience it is called this.
What is a monologue?
300
When a piece of literature gives a reference to something else that the author expects the reader to know. (can be Biblical, Historical, or Cultural)
What is an allusion?
300
The number of syllables in a line of poetry makes up this.
What is the meter.
300
These are directions written into the script so that actors and the director know what the playwright intended.
What are stage directions?
400
A retelling of what a story was about. It does not contain opinions.
What is a summary?
400
When a poem repeats words or lines, it is called this kind of structure.
What is parallel?
400
The main character of a play (or any work of literature) is called this.
What is protagonist?
500
The perspective from which a story is told. (Can be 1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person limited, or 3rd person omniscient)
What is point-of-view?
500
Two lines of poetry, usually at the end of a stanza, that rhyme and provide a pointed meaning.
What is a couplet?
500
He wrote "A Doll's House."
Who is Henrik Ibsen?