| Term | Definition |
|---|
| prolific | producing abundantly |
| versatile | having an ability to perform various tasks |
| pathos | the quality of human experience which arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, and sorrow |
| tragedy | a serious play with an unhappy or disastrous ending |
| soliloquy | a fairly long speech spopken when a character is alone on stage; a character's thought spoken aloud |
| aside | a remark spoken in an undertone to the audience which the other characters on stage supposedly do not hear |
| comedy | a play with a happy ending |
| imagery | words or phrases that create pictures or images in the reader's mind |
| iamb | a poetic foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
| pentameter | a poetic line that consists of five verse feet |
| blank verse | verse written in unrhymed iambic pentatmeter |
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