Midterm Vocabulary Review

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

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

• dialogue

• aside

• monologue

• soliloquy

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

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

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

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

• scene

• screenplay

• short story

• script

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

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

• explosition

• plot

• climax

• resolution

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

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

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

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

• simile

• alliteration

• allusion

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The main part of the story where the complications arise.

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

• resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The person or force in conflict with the protagonist.

• hero

• antagonist

• evil force

• conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C