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Alliteration   the repetition of initial consonant sounds. Alliteration is used to create melody,establish mood,and call attention to certain words.  
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Allusion   an inderect reference to aperson,thing event situation,or aspect of culture real or fictional,past or present.An allusion may draw from literature,myth,history,or the Bible.  
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Aside   a remark spoken in an unertone by one charachter either to the audience or to another character which remaining characters do not hear.  
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Chorus   a single actor who recites the prologue  
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Couplet   any two line stanza that contains a complete thought;couplets are usally rhymed.  
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Foil   a character who provides a striking contrast to a main character,thus calling attention to certain traits of the main character.  
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Foreshadowing   the technique of proving the reader or viewer with hits,clues,or indications about the futer action of a story or play;prepares the reader for what is to come and helps him/her to anticipate the outcome.  
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Irony   is genaral,a contrast between what appers to be and what really is.  
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VERBAL IRONY   a person says one thing but means anbother.  
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SITUATIONAL IRONY   what happens in contrary to what is expected to happen  
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DRAMATIC IRONY   when the audience knows what will happen but a character does not  
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Metaphor   an implied comparison between two essentially unlike things without using like or as  
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Oxymoron   a figure of speech that produce an effect by seeming selfcontradictory,as in ''wise fool'',''sad joy''and ''cruel kindness.''  
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Personofication   a figure of speech in which human characteristics are assigned to nonhuman things,or life is attributed to inanimate objects.  
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Prologue   an introductory speech,often in verse,calling attention to the theme(s)of a play  
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Prose   the ordinary form of a spoken or written language which does not have a regular rhythmic pattern or meter.  
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Pun   a play on words based on the similarity of sound between two words with different meanings.  
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Simile   a figure of speech in which two essentially different things are directly compared,usually with the words like or as  
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Soliloquy   a speech of a character in a play deliverd while the speaker is alone, that informs the audience of what is passing in the character`s mind or give information concerning other participants in the action which is essential for the auddience to know  
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Sonnet   a lyric poem of fourteen lines.The Shakespearean sonnet contains three quatrains each with a rhymed couplet.The typical rhyme scheme is abab,cdcd,efef,gg.  
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Tragedy   a dramatic composition dealing with a serious or somber theme,typically that of a noble person whose character is flawed by a single weakness such as pride,envy,etc.,which causes him to break a divine law or moral precept and which inevitably leads to his  
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Tragic Flaw   a flaw in a character that brings about the downfall of the hero of a tregedy;hamartia(Greek for tragic flaw)  
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