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Term | Definition |
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Tragedy | Drama that ends in catastrophe - most often death – and follows the journey of a tragic hero (protagonist) |
Soliloquy | When a character speaks out loud to him/herself, which shares his/her thoughts with the audience. |
Monologue | A speech given by a single person to an audience. |
Aside | A line spoken from one character to another heard by the audience but not by all the characters on stage |
Iambic Pentameter | A line with a specific rhythm of 5 sets of unstressed/stressed syllable pairs |
Pun | A form of word play that suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple definitions of words, or of similar sounding words, for intended humorous effect |
Sonnet | A poem of 14 lines written in ABAB CDCD EFEF GG |