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by Rylie

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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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sonnet   fourteen line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes  
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prose   direct unadorned form of language, written or spoken, in ordinary use  
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chorus   a group who says things at the same time  
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anachronism   event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period  
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verbal irony   a writer or speaker says one thing, but means something completely different  
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dramatic irony   the audience or reader knows something important that the character doesn't know  
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monologue   a speech by one character in a play  
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soliloquy   an unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud  
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foil   character who is used as a contrast to another character  
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oxymoron   a combination of two contradictory terms  
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aside   words that are spoken by a character in a play to the audience or another character that isn't supposed to be overheard by other people onstage  
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pun   a play on the multiple meanings of a word  
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comic relief   humor added that lessens the seriousness of the plot  
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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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blank verse   poetry written that doesn't rhyme at the end  
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couplet   two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; they often signal the exit of a character or the end of a scene  
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