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soliloquy
long speech alone (thoughts or feelings)
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monologue
long speech in front of others (plot details)
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foil
characters with opposite traits - highlights behaviors
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dramatic irony
when the audience knows info that characters don’t
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foreshadowing
author hints at something that will happen later
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tragedy
specific type of play where a high ranking character experiences a reversal of fortune and a downfall due to tragic flaw
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tragic flaw
personality trait causing tragic hero to make choices to downfall
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blank verse
lines of poetry in unrhymed iambic pentameter
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aside
brief comment unheard by other characters
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