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Shakespeare
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| aside | when a character speaks his/her thoughts aloud but isn't heard by the other characters on stage. |
| blank verse | |
| comedy | |
| dramatic personae | |
| elision | |
| epliogue | |
| figurative language | |
| first folio | |
| iamb | |
| iamb pentameter | |
| meter | the regular rhythm that is created when syllables are stressed and unstressed in a systematic pattern |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which for the purposes of description two unalike things are compared or equated |
| prologue | a speech at the beginning of the play that usually introduces the subject matter of the drama |
| protagonist | the character who is of leading importance in a drama or narrative |
| prose | language that isn't written in meter and which is much more irregular in its rhythms than verse. |
| scanison | the analysis of a line of verse in metrical terms |
| simlie | a figure of speech in which unalike things are compared and connected by like or as |
| soliloquy | a dramatic monologue that often seems to express the internal , even secret workings of a characters mind |
| syncope | the contraction of a single word |
| tragedy | a serious dramatic work in which a protagonist is troubled by some terrible conflict that results in dire events |
| verse | use to describe lines written in metrical form, sometimes used simply to denote a piece of poetry |
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