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5th Six Weeks Vocab
5th Six Weeks Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| drama | a story told in front of a live audience. |
| playwright | the author of a drama |
| script | written words for the actors |
| dialogue | words spoken by actors in a drama |
| scene | parts of the acts in a drama; changes with setting or time |
| act | the “units of actions” from a drama; similar to a chapter in a book |
| cast | the team of actors who play characters in a play, movie, or musical |
| props | small movable items that the actors use |
| stage directions | instructions in a play's script (often in italics or parentheses) that tell actors how to move, act, or feel. |
| stanza | a paragraph in a poem; a group of lines that stick together to make one part of the poem, separated from other groups by a blank space |
| rhyme scheme | a poet's deliberate pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a poem or a stanza |
| repetition | using the same word, phrase, line, or sound more than once to make the poem more musical, catchy, and meaningful. |
| poet | one who writes poems, using words, rhythm, and imagination to share feelings, stories, or ideas. |
| tone | the feeling or attitude in the author’s voice or writing, like happy, sad, angry, or funny, shown by word choice and how things are said |
| imagery | using words to help you see, hear, smell, taste, and feel things in your imagination |