Drama, Poetry, or Prose?

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What is poetry?

Back

Expressive writing written with lines and stanzas. May contain rhyme and repetition.

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

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What is prose?

Back

Ordinary writing written with sentences and paragraphs. Dialogue can be placed in quotation marks. Written to entertain, inform or persuade.

Front

What is drama?

Back

A play written with scenes and acts. Dialogue is not placed in quotation marks but instead with a script.

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.10

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

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What is a stanza?

Back

A group of lines in a poem.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

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What is dialogue?

Back

Conversation between two or more characters.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

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What are rhyming words?

Back

Two or more words that have a matching end sound.

Tags

CCSS.RF.1.2A

CCSS.RF.2.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.K.1D

CCSS.RF.K.2A

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What is a script?

Back

The lines that actors speak in a drama.

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.10

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.3

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What are stage directions?

Back

Instructions that tell the actors how to act on stage.

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.10

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.5

Front

What is a character in literature?

Back

A person, animal, or figure represented in a story or play.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

Front

What is a theme in literature?

Back

The main idea or underlying message in a story, poem, or play.

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9