Flash Cards
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects
Personification
Comparison between two different items, not using “ like” or “ as”
Metaphor
A less important plot, developed at the same time
Subplot
Where the tension of the plot is at its height
Climax
Speech toward the audience
Soliloquy
Items on set
Props
Extended speech by one character
Monologue
The setting on the stage, houses, a room, etc.
Scenery
A thing that suggests more than its literal meaning
Symbol
Speaker in a poem
Voice
The way words are arranged in a poem
Word order
Describe one thing in terms of something else
Figure of speech
Comparison between two different items, using “ like” or “ as”
Simile
Language that evokes one of the five senses
Imagery
The person who tells the story
Persona
A story with two levels of meaning, literal and symbolic
Allegory
The person who tells the story
Narrator
A narrator that is not a participant in the story
Third person narrator
Narrator knows only about one character
Third person limited narrator
The narrator that is mentally ill
Unreliable narrator
The way a story is told and by whom
Point of view
The narrator is all knowing
Third person omniscient narrator
