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Shakespeare Lit Term

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Drama   A story written to be acted for an audience  
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Tragedy   A play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end  
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Prologue   A short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot  
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Chorus   A group who says things at the same time  
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Static Character   Character who does not change much in the course of a story  
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Dynamic Character   Character who changes as a result of the story’s events  
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Aside   Words spoken by a character in a play, usually in an undertone and not intended to be heard  
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Blank Verse   Unrhymed iambic pentameter  
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Couplet   Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme  
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Iambic Meter   Unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable  
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Iambic Pentameter   Five verse feet with each foot an iamb (a total of 10 syllables)  
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Pun   The humorous use of word or phase to suggest two or more meanings at the same time  
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Monologue   A long, uninterrupted speech presented in front of other characters  
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Oxymoron   A figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory terms  
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Soliloquy   A speech in which a character in alone on stage and expresses thoughts out loud  
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Sonnet   A fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, that has one of several rhyme schemes  
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