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Act Major devisions in a play Chorus A goup of people in the background who generally speak together, sing together... represent the voice of the general public Comedy A funny/humerous play Comic Relief Momentary humour to easy/lighten the mood in a dramatic performance Complication A twist used to prolong the climax Concealment Allows the actors to be seen and heard by the public and not by fellow actors Couplet Two succesive poetry lines of the same length that act as the same unit Drama A work designed to be performed by actors, that re-creates human life and emotions Dramatic Irony When a character says something that has greater meaning than her or she perceives (the audience knows more than the character) Epilogue A little speech given at the end of the dramatic performance concluding it and sometimes giving information about what happened to the characters afterwards Exeunt Word meaning exit Irony A device by which a writer expressed a meaning contradictory than the one stated Monologue A speech said by only one person Pace The speed of which the actions unroll in a play Plot The problem, or main event in a play Prologue an introduction to a poem or play Quatrain A stanza or poem of 4 lines, usually rhyming Rhyme A piece of verse where there is a regular recurrence of corresponding sounds Scene The divisions within an act Soliloquy Allows the character to speak his thoughts aloud, and to himself or herself Sonnet A fourteen-line lyric poem, usually rhymed in iambic pantameter Stanza Divisions within a poem Tragedy A dramatic performance often with a sad ending where the main character moves from happiness to misery because of a fault Tragic Flaw A flaw in a character that lead to the climax of the story Verse Lines arranged in metrical pattern; a single line of poetry Alliteration A repetition of the initial consonant in a series of words/clauses. ex. a big black and blue bumble bee Allusion A figure of explanation using brief refference to a fomous character. Analogy An extended and longer similie or metaphor Anaphora A figure of repetition of words or set of words which occurs in the beginning or very near the beginning of a set of successive clauses or words Assonance A repetition of the middle vowels in a series of words/clauses Asyndeton An omission of coordinate conjuctions between a series of words/clauses Exemplum A figure of amplification using an example (real or fictitious) to support and illustrate a point Hyperbole A deliberate exageration of a person, thing, quality and or event to emphasize a point external to the object of exaggeration Metaphor A figure of comparison without like or as. Parallelism A figure of balance in a set of words/clauses which have very similar gramatical structure Personification Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects Polysyndeton An addition of coordinate conjunctions between aa series of words/clauses Rhetorical Question A question with an obvious answer; asked not for further discussion, but to emphasize a point. Similie A direct comparison of two or more clauses using like of as Connotation The implication of suggestions evoked by a word Consonance The repetition of the inner consonnant in a series of words/clauses Denotation The litteral and limited defenition of a word Figurative language Language which acheives effects beyond the range of litteral language Image An expression that describes a litteral sensation Onomatopoeia When the sounds of a word directly imitate the sound to which it refers Oxymoron An apparent contradiction within itself Symbol When an object place of thing has a greater meaning than it's literal meaning