4th Grade STAAR Poetry/ Drama Vocabulary

The individual segments of text in a poem that are numbered by 5s.

• Line

• Speaker

• Personification

• Repetition

The text the actors are supposed to say out loud in a drama.

• Playwright

• Dialogue

• Scene

• Drama

Larger sections of text in a poem, similar to paragraphs.

• Idiom

• Speaker

• Stanzas

• Hyperpole

Instructions for the actors that tell them where to go or how to say a line.

• Cast of Characters

• Narrator

• Act

• Stage Directions

When two or more words end in the same sound. Ex: ring and ding

• Rhyme

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Poem

Smaller sections of a drama divided by a change in the setting.

• Drama

• Scene

• Script

• Character tags

A text that is meant to be read out loud, organized by stanzas and line.

• Nonfiction

• Fiction

• Poem

• Drama

Large sections of a drama usually divided by the climax of the text.

• Props

• Dialogue

• Playwrite

• Acts

When a poet uses figurative and sensory language to create a picture in the readers mind.

• Imagery

• Rhyme Scheme

• Stanza

• Poem

Time and place of a text.

• Script

• Setting

• Narrator

• Stage Directions