| Soliloquy | A speech in a play that is meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage. If there are no other characters present, the soliloquy represents the character thinking aloud. |
| caesura | A strong pause within a line of verse.. |
| complication | An event or action in a work of literature that serves to intensify and develop the conflict. |
| epigram | A brief witty poem, often satirical. |
| first-person narrator | A narrator who is also a character in the story, poem, novel, or drama and who tells the story through the use of “I” or “we.” First-person narrators can report only their own thoughts and observations and not those of others. |
| satiric humor | Comic characters, dialogue, and actions that are used for the purpose of revealing, criticizing and ridiculing human foibles, faults, vices, and idiosyncrasies. |
| stage direction | A playwright’s descriptive or interpretive comments that provide readers (and actors) with information about the dialogue, setting, and action of a play. |
| syntax | The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue. The organization of words and phrases and clauses in sentences of prose, verse, and dialogue. |
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