Content Vocabulary

Dialogue is...

• a conversation between two or more people.

• having the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what is explicit.

• a witness who testifies under oath as to the good reputation of another person in the community where that person lives.

• a short moral story.

In English, a drama is...

• problems that come from the neighborhood.

• a witness who testifies under oath as to the good reputation of another person in the community where that person lives.

• a work intended for performance by actors on a stage.

• having the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what is explicit.

Figurative language is...

• a work intended for performance by actors on a stage.

• a word or phrase that is meant to be taken literally.

• a word or phrase that is NOT meant to be taken literally.

• a transition in a story to an earlier event or scene.

If something is implied, that means...

• it was hinted at but not outright stated.

• it was outright stated.

• a word or phrase that is meant to be taken literally.

• someone who fights for a cause

Verbal irony is...

• a kind of literary or artistic work.

• someone who fights for a cause.

• a message that has the power to evoke laughter.

• sarcasm.

The point of view is...

• sarcasm.

• the mental position from which things are perceived.

• a kind of literary or artistic work.

• a comparison using "like" or "as".

Onomatopoeia is...

• a transition in a story to an earlier event or scene.

• a word that sounds like the word a noise makes.

• sarcasm.

• suggested though not directly expressed.

Setting is...

• when the audience knows something a character doesn't.

• giving human characteristics to nonliving things.

• the time, place, and mood in which a story takes place.

• a comparison without using "like" or "as".

Hyperbole is...

• an over-exaggeration of the literal meaning.

• a transition in a story to an earlier event or scene.

• sarcasm.

• the practice of investing things with arbitrary meaning

Theme is...

• a play on words to create a humorous effect.

• a phrase in which two opposite ideas are paired together to form a new idea.

• making a comparison between two unlike things.

• the message of the story.