| Term | Definition |
|---|
| cunning | skill in deception or trickery |
| vile | evil or disgusting |
| predominant | most common OR most powerful |
| unwieldy | difficult to manage |
| imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| irony | something other than what is expected or desired |
| dramatic irony | when the audience knows something that the character does not! |
| situational irony | a difference between what is expected and what really happens |
| verbal irony | difference between what is said and what is meant |
| monologue | a long speech by one character |
| oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines two contradictory ideas |
| personification | giving human characteristics to an animal, object, natural force, or idea |
| soliloquy | a speech in which the character is alone (solo) on stage and expresses thoughts out loud |
| analogy | a comparison between two objects that lasts several lines |
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