4th Grade STAAR Poetry/ Drama Vocabulary

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What is personification?

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Giving a nonhuman object human characteristics. Example: 'The grass danced in the wind.'

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What is a line in poetry?

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The individual segments of text in a poem that are numbered by 5s.

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Who is the author of a drama text?

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The playwright.

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What are stage directions?

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Instructions for the actors that tell them where to go or how to say a line.

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What is meter/rhythm in poetry?

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The beat or flow of a poem.

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What is imagery in poetry?

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Descriptive language that appeals to the senses and creates a picture in the reader's mind.

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What is a stanza?

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A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose.

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What is dialogue in drama?

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The spoken exchanges between characters in a play.

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What are props in a drama?

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Objects used by actors on stage to enhance the storytelling.

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What is a speaker in poetry?

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The voice that tells the poem, which may be the poet or a fictional character.