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

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

• diagram
• prose
• drama
• plot

conversations between characters

• conversations
• dialogue
• talking
• stage directions

ordinary writing with sentences and paragraphs

• plot
• drama
• poetry
• prose

the central message of a literary work

• moral
• climax
• theme
• message

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

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

• falling action
• rising action
• climax
• resolution

the frequent use of objects that represent something else

• imagery
• alliteration
• foreshadowing
• symbolism