Critical Vocabulary #6

What word gives human qualities or characteristics to an animal or object?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• pun

​ (a)   is the same word or sound that appears over and over to show something is important or to add rhythm.

• Repetition
• Rhyming
• Scene
• Dialogue

​ (a)   is a short, usually old statement that shares wisdom or expresses a general truth.

• Adage
• Dialogue
• Pun
• Figurative Language

A ​ (a)   is a person or animal in a story.

• character
• pun
• personification
• setting

​ (a)   is the information in a drama that tells actors where to move, how to look or speak, or gives details about the set.

• Stage direction
• Setting
• Scene
• Dialogue

This is where and when a story takes place.

• setting

• scene

• dialogue

• pun

A ______ is where the action in a play takes place in a single setting.

• setting

• dialogue

• action

• scene

A ​ (a)   is the word(s) that characters in a story or drama say aloud to each other.

• dialogue
• scence
• personification
• adage

Which word is a play on words that creates a funny or witty statement such as "Let's taco bout it?"

• pun

• simile

• metaphor

• joke

A ______ is someone who appears in court to say what they know about a crime.

• investigator

• lawyer

• witness

• defendent