Elements of Drama
Poetry I
Drama
Poetry II
Vocabulary
100

Tells the characters what to do (Juliet moves to the right of the stage)

Stage directions

100

The "paragraph" in a poem

Stanza

100

A play or script. Something meant to be acted out is called

A drama

100

The author of the poem is called a

Poet

100

Words that imitate or suggest the sounds they describe

Onomatopoeia

200

Someone who writes a drama

A playwright

200

Using the same words over and over again in poetry.

Repetition

200

A performer who speaks directly to the audience to tell a story

Narrator

200

Repetition of beginning sounds in a line or stanza.

Alliteration

200

The moral lesson

Theme

300

Major divisions or parts of the play

Acts

300

Comparing two different things using "like" or "as"

Simile

300

A conversation between two or more people

Dialogue

300

A poem with no set patterns is called a

Free verse poem

300

The sequence of events in the story. How the story plays out beginning to end

Plot

400

Divisions of the acts, changes every time there is a new setting.

Scene

400

How the author feels toward a subject or topic.

Tone

400

A speech by ONE character to another

Monologue

400

"Let me lend you a hand" is an example of what type of figurative language?

An idiom

400

Where the story takes place

Setting

500

Items characters use while performing.

Props

500

A-A-B-C-B-C is an example of...

Rhyme Scheme

500

What was the name of the spider in the drama we performed as a class?

Anansi the Spider

500

How we feel when reading a poem.

Mood

500

A comparison between two things that are unrelated

Metaphor