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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| allusion | a reference to a famous historical or fictional person or event or work ex.immoderatly she weeps for his death, and therfor i have little talked of love; for venus smiles not in a house of tears |
| aside | like the caracter is wispering ex. for all this same, i'll hide my heareabout. his looks i fear and his esntials i doubt. |
| blank verse | poetry ritten in unrymed iambic perimeter |
| comic relif | a hour scene put in a normally serious scene to have a break from the intensity of the scene/drama ex. conversation between peter and the musitions at the end of scene five is comic relif |
| couplet | two rymed lines ex. usually at the end of a scene in shake spears plays |
| dramatic irony | when the adience knows something that the characters dont know |
| epithet | and adjective used to characterize a person place or thing |
| foil | two contrasting caraters |
| iambic pentameter | peotry with five iambs |
| metaphor | figure of speech of to unlike things that have something in comon |
| oxymoron | a figure of speech of two contradictory terms such as burtal kindness |
| parallel | 2 people who have identical qualities |
| personifation | figure of speech giving animals and inanament objects human personality traits |
| pun | a play on the mulitiple meanings of words |
| simile | a figure of speech that uses the words like, as, than, or resembales |
| soliloquy | when a charater is alone and talking to themselves |
| tragedy | hero is of nobel birth hero has a flaw hero causes his own tragedy play ends in death or violence |
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