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Prose Poetry Drama Board 1 Answer Key

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Prose
#1 These are the people or animals in the story. What are characters?
#2 This is the author’s choice of a narrator in a story. What is point of view?
#3 This is the main character in a story. What is the protagonist?
#4 This is the rival of the main character. What is the antagonist?
#5 This is the the end or conclusion of a story. What is the resolution?
Poetry
#1 This is a repetition of sound at the end of words. What is rhyme?
#2 Similar to a paragraph in prose, this is a group of lines that are usually similar in length and pattern and are separated by spaces. What is a stanza?
#3 This is a change in the narrator’s voice, often used to indicate an insight into the subject. What is a shift?
#4 This is a contradiction between what happens and what is expected. What is irony?
#5 This is a word that imitates the sound that it describes. What is onomatopoeia?
Drama
#1 These are the people that perform in a play. What are actors?
#2 This is a play that addresses a serious subject. What is drama?
#3 This is an exchange of words between two or more characters. What is dialogue?
#4 This is a large unit of action in a drama. What is an act?
#5 This is a term used for the construction on stage that suggests the time and place of the action. What is set or scenery?
Examples
#1 This would include any moment from “Despicable Me” that shows Gru as a child. What is flashback?
#2 I ran down the hall and yelled for help. What is first person?
#3 Her backpack weighed a ton. What is hyperbole?
#4 Her eyes shone like a star. What is a simile?
#5 Be careful what you wish for. What is theme?
The Nineties
#1 Blossom, Buttercup, Bubbles were all members of this group. Who are the Powerpuff Girls?
#2 Farmer Hogget wins a prize-winning pig by guessing a pig’s weight in this film. What is Babe?
#3 In 1998 an estimated 76 million viewers tune in to watch the last episode of this comedy. What is Seinfeld?
#4 After 27 years of imprisonment, the South African government released this Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1990. Who is Nelson Mandela?
#5 President George Bush Sr. and Russian president Boris Yeltsin formally declared an end to this in 1992. What is The Cold War?
Final Question