R&J Literary & Character Review

A literary composition involving conflict, action, crisis, and atmosphere designed to be acted by players on a stage before an audience. 

• comedy
• tragedy
• history
• drama

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

A type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the better. In comedy, things work out happily in the end.

• comedy
• tragedy
• drama
• history

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

A type of drama which presents readers with a story that takes place during a notable period in history, and usually during a significant event in that period.

• comedy
• tragedy
• history
• drama

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

A type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the worse (catastrophe and suffering await the heroes).

• comedy
• tragedy
• history
• drama

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

Usually the main character, someone who is nobly born, who may have great influence in his or her society, and has a weakness.

• tragic flaw
• tragedy
• protagonist
• antagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

A humorous scene, incident or speech that relieves the overall emotional intensity.

• comic flaw
• comic relief
• comic error
• comic tragedy

A brief reference to something outside of the story that the reader or audience is expected to know.

• illusion
• allusion
• inclusion
• allure

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A character whose personality or attitude are sharp in contrast to those of another character in the same story to highlight character traits and attitude.

• foil
• fiol
• fowl
• flow

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Devices that theater audiences accept as realistic, even though they do not necessarily reflect the way real-life people behave.

• literary devices
• dramatic devices
• dramatic connections
• dramatic conventions

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

A speech that a character gives when he or she is alone on stage. Its purpose is to let the audience know what the character is thinking.

• scene
• soliloquy
• drama
• act

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10