Apostrophe
When an inanimate object or absent person is addressed as if the person or object would respond
Aside
A comment made by a character that is heard by the audience or another character but is not heard by other haracters onstage (private thoughts)
Foil character
A character who provides a strong contrast to another character to emphasize a character's traits
Chorus
Used by Elizabethan dramatists to comment on play's actions and describe events not shown on stage (actor(s) speak in unison and deliver a prologue)
Comic relief
A short, funny episode that interrupts an otherwise serious or tragic work of drama. Break of tension
Dramatic irony
When a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Monologue
When a character delivers a long speech to another
Prologue
Sonnet at the beginning act of a play; exposition or summary if the play
Pun
A play on words that sounds the same or spelled the same
Shakespeare sonnet
A lyric poem of 14 lines following a strict pattern of 10 syllables and division and rhyme (abab cdcdc efef gg) three quatrains and a couplet
Soliloquy
A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage; private thoughts and emotions of a character
Tragedy
A play which a main character called a tragic hero suffers a downfall from external or internal forces called tragic flaws
Act strange
Act distant and cold
Biting your thumb at someone
Equivalent to shooting the middle finger at someone
Fahsionmongers
Crowd-pleasers
Foe
Enemy
Fray
Fight
Haste
Hurry
I beseech you
I'm asking you
I pray thee
I ask you
Jest
Joke
Jove
Zeus
Live in chaste
Virginity
Nuptial
Wedding
Nurse
Nanny
Plague
Fatal disease
Queen Mab
Fairy godmother
Rapier
Sword
Saucy
Rude, obnoxious
Save
Except
Scorn
To make fun of or criticize
Slain
Killed by the sword
Thou, thee
You
Wench
Nasty girl
Woe
Anguish and sadness