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U2 W3/4 + Drama
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| annoyed | bothered, irritated |
| attitude | a way of thinking or acting |
| commotion | a noisy confusion |
| cranky | irritable |
| familiar | well-known because of having been seen or heard before |
| frustrated | disappointed in being prevented from doing something |
| selfish | thinking only of oneself, not thinking of others |
| specialty | a particular thing that a person knows a lot about |
| poem | a collection of words that express an emotion or idea, sometimes with a specific rhythm or rhyme (written in lines and stanzas) |
| drama | the story of a play is told through dialogue and actions and characters read from a script |
| prose | Regular writing that is not poetry. Examples: novel, textbook, newspapers, biography |
| rhyme scheme | The pattern in which lines rhyme within a poem. |
| meter | The rhythm of syllables in a poem. The alternating syllables seem to make the words bounce. |
| stanza | a collection of lines in a poem |
| cast of characters | the actors taking part in a play, film, or other production |
| stage directions | an instruction in the text of a play (tells the movement, position, tone of an actor or the sound effects) |
| setting | the place and time at which a play, novel or film is represented as happening |
| dialogue | conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play or movie |