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| what one character says to another without anyone else hearing except their audience |
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| a long speech performed by one character while others are on stage |
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| a play on words; signifies a sharp-whitted character |
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| "solo"; like a monologue, a long speech performed by one character, but he or she is on stage |
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| unrhymed 5 iambic stresses (closest to natural speech) |
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| ordinary written or spoken language, without metrical structure |
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| in nouns referring to lines of poetry with a specified number of measures. |
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| 5 iambs (unaccented/ accented syllables) in a line of poetry |
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| any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas (sonnet; abab cdcd efef gg) |
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| The standard omission of seemingly excessive syllables: ev'ry;nat'ral |
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| a poem composed of 14 lines that rhymes a certain way |
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| literary work dealing with serious and important themes, in which dignified tragic figure meets distruction, usually through some personal flaw or weakness |
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| Literary work that is generally amusing, which usually ends happy because the hero is able to overcome his or her personal weakness |
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| in reference to a performance or play; written story that is meant to be performed. |
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| when the audience or reader knows something that the characters do not |
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| relief from the emotional tension of a drama that is provided by the interposition of a comic episode or element |
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| hero of the work, typically of high birth, whose personal destruction is in some way involved with the well being of the state; usually suffers from some flaw |
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| a flaw in one character that brings about the downfall of the hero of a tragedy |
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| two successive lines, usually in the same meter linked by a rhyme. usually signals of the dramatic finality of the scene |
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| when the lines in the passage of the poetry are read in accordance to punctuation and not stopped at the end of the line |
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