Midterm Vocabulary Review

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

A traditional segment in a play or screenplay used to indicate (1) a change in time (2) a change in location, (3) provides a jump from one subplot to another, (4) introduces new characters (5)rearrange the actors on the stage.

• act

• rising action

• scene

• climax

The conversation between characters in a drama or work of literature.

• dialogue

• aside

• monologue

• soliloquy

Instructions in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting.

• script

• monologue

• screenplay

• stage directions

Written text of a play, movie, or television show.

• scene

• screenplay

• short story

• script

What happens in a story; the chain of events that make up a story.

• explosition

• plot

• climax

• resolution

The most exciting or intense part of the story for the protagonist; a turning point in the story.

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

A reference to a person, place, or event from literature, sports, history, movies, or the arts

• simile

• alliteration

• allusion

• hyperbole

The main part of the story where the complications arise.

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

• resolution

The person or force in conflict with the protagonist.

• hero

• antagonist

• evil force

• conflict