Vocabulary Quiz #20

Instructions for actors and stage crews; usually set in italics

• dialogue

• stage directions

• conflict

• metaphor

A text structure that presents a problem and offers solutions to solve the problem

• description

• compare and contrast

• cause and effect

• problem and solution

The root that means: to measure

• graph

• rhyme

• meter

• rhythm

A comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

Creates a picture in the reader's mind

• imagery

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

The beginning, middle, and end; a strategy used for summary

• BME

• plot

• Fact

• Theme

Most exciting moment in the story; the turning point

• exposition

• climax

• resolution

• rising action

A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• hyperbole

To repeat sounds, words, or whole lines in a poem

• description

• rhythm

• repetition

• alliteration

The root that means: heat

• tele

• micro

• therm

• hydr