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italicized comments that identify parts of the setting or the use of props or costumes, give further information about a character, or provide background information.

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Couplet

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two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme.

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Stage directions

italicized comments that identify parts of the setting or the use of props or costumes, give further information about a character, or provide background information.

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Couplet

two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme.

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Volta

or turn, is a rhetorical shift or dramatic change in thought and /or emotion.

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Soliloquy

a lengthy speech by one character who is talking to him- or herself.

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Malapropism

the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar sounding word.

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Allusion

a reference to a work of literature, an historical figure or time period in history, or to something in popular culture without directly mentioning it.

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Oxymoron

a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.

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Meter

the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.

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Monologue

a lengthy speech by one character, addressed to other characters.

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Sonnet

a 14- line poem written in iambic pentameter, with a set rhyme scheme (aabb, ccdd, eeff, gg)

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Scene

a division of an act into smaller parts.

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Tragedy

a serious work of drama in which the hero suffers catastrophe or serious misfortune, usually because of his own actions.

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Quatrain

a stanza of four lines in a poem.

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Chorus

a character whose job it is to introduce or summarize important information.

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Stanza

the grouping of lines in a poem (couplets, quatrain, etc .)

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Iambic pentameter

a line of poetry with five metric feet, each consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.

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Dramatic foil

A dramatic foil is a character who is the exact opposite of another character.

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Rhyme scheme

the pattern of rhyming sounds at the end of lines of poetry.

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Verbal irony

to say one thing and mean the other.

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Meter

a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.

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Meter

a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry

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Malapropism

the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar sounding word

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Aside

a short line delivered directly to the audience or to another character

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Monologue

a lengthy speech by one character, addressed to other characters

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Meter

the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse

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Volta

or turn, is a rhetorical shift or dramatic change in thought and/or emotion

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Sonnet

a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter, with a set rhyme scheme (aabb, ccdd, eeff, gg)

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iamb

one metric foot consisting of one unstressed and one stressed syllable, in that order

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iambic pentameter

a line of poetry with five metric feet, each consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable

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Stanza

the grouping of lines in a poem (couplets, quatrain, etc.)

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Quatrain

a stanza of four lines in a poem

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Couplet

two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme

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Chorus

a character whose job it is to introduce or summarize important information

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Scene

a division of an act into smaller parts

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Rhyme scheme

the pattern of rhyming sounds at the end of lines of poetry

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Act

a division within a play, much like chapters of a novel

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Situational irony

to expect one thing and the opposite occur

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Dramatic irony

This irony is developed when the audience knows something that the characters in the story do not know

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Verbal irony

to say one thing and mean the other

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Dramatic foil

A dramatic foil is a character who is the exact opposite of another character

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Oxymoron

a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

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Stage directions

italicized comments that identify parts of the setting or the use of props or costumes, give further information about a character, or provide background information

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Tragedy

a serious work of drama in which the hero suffers catastrophe or serious misfortune, usually because of his own actions