Poetry and Drama Terms

Question 1

The attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience conveyed through word choice and the style of the writing.

Accepted Answer

Tone

Question 2

The time and place (or when and where) of the story.

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Setting

Question 3

A literary technique in which writers employ two or more characters to be engaged in conversation with one another.

Accepted Answer

Dialogue

Question 4

The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.

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Rhyme Scheme

Question 5

A short introductory section that gives background information or sets the stage for the story to come.

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Prologue

Question 6

Personification - a figure of speech in which the poet describes a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were human.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

Why is drama different that prose or poetry?

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It is meant to be acted out, not read.

Question 8

The climax of a plot and the resolution are the same thing.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 9

Literally means “opposite”; two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence.

Accepted Answer

Antithesis

Question 10

The main character of a work of literature.

Accepted Answer

Protagonist

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