| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Act | one of the main sections of a play or other dramatic performance |
| Aside | actor, usually to the audience, that the other characters on stage supposedly cannot hear |
| Monologue | a long passage in a play or motion picture spoken by one actor |
| Soliloquy | the act of speaking while alone |
| Allegory | a work in which the characters and evfents are to be understood as representing other things and symolically expressing a deeper, often spiritual, moral, or political meaning |
| Alliteration | a poetic or literary effect achieved by using several words that begin with the same or similar consonants |
| Connotation | an additional sense or senses associated with or suggested by a word or phrase |
| Denotation | the most specific or literal meaning of a word |
| Hyperbole | over exaggeration |
| Imagery | images in literary work; the vivid mental picture created in the reader's mind |
| Metaphor | comparison of two objects without using "like" or "as" |
| Onomatopoeia | the formation or use of words that imitate the sound associated with something |
| Ballad | a song or poem, especially a traditional one or one in a traditional style, telling a story in a number of short regular stanzas |
| Epic | a lengthy narrative poem in elevated language celebrating the adventures and achievements of a legendary or traditional hero |
| Free verse | verse without a fixed metrical pattern, usually having unrhymed lines of varying length |
| Idiom | a fixed distinctive expression whose meaning cannot be deduced from the combined meanings of its actual words |
| Sonnet | a short poem with 14 lines, usually 10-syllable rhyming lines, divided into 2, 3, or 4 sections |
| Pun | play on words |
| Moment of crisis | turning point of play |
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