Prose & Drama Literary Terms

screenplays and stage plays created from novels

• drama
• prose
• dramatic adaptation
• movies

hints/clues are offered about upcoming events 

• foreshadowing
• shadowing
• forshadowing
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

the arrangement/sequence of events in literature (you can diagram them)

• diagram
• prose
• drama
• plot

conversations between characters

• conversations
• dialogue
• talking
• stage directions

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

ordinary writing with sentences and paragraphs

• plot
• drama
• poetry
• prose

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

the central message of a literary work

• moral
• climax
• theme
• message

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

a struggle in the story

• climax
• conflict
• rising action
• falling action

where the events of the plot become complicated and the conflict is revealed

• falling action
• exposition
• climax
• rising action

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

the events of the plot speed up and begin to resolve themselves

• falling action
• rising action
• climax
• resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

the frequent use of objects that represent something else

• imagery
• alliteration
• foreshadowing
• symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5