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aside |
a part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intecnded only for the audience. |
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soliloquy |
the act of talking while or as if alone. |
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blank verse |
unrhymed verse, esp. the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in english dramatic, epic, and reflective verse. |
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couplet |
A pari of successive lines of verse, esp. a pair that rhyme and are of the same length. |
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iambic pentameter |
a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foor containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable. |
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Ryme |
a poem or piece of verse having such correspondence. |
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Metaphor |
One thing conceived as representing another, a symbol. |
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Simile |
A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as. |
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Imagery |
The formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively. |
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symbolism |
the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. |
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Tragic Hero |
A literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, bring on a tragedy. |
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Comic Relief |
An amusing scene, incident, or speech introduced into serious or tragic elements, as in a play, in order to provide temporary relief from tension, oir to intensify the dramatic action |
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Antagonist |
THe adversary of the hero or protagonist of a drama or other literary work. |
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Proagonist |
The leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work. |
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Universal appeal |
something that ahd a wide appeal to a large number of people. |
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irony |
the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. |
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Tragedy |
A dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically that of a great person destined through a flaw of character or conflict with some overpowering force, as a fate or society, to downfall or destruction. |
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Climax |
The highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something. |
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catastrophe |
the point at which the circumstances overcome the central motive, introducing the close or conclusion. |
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Equivocation |
an equivocal, ambiguous expression. |
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paradox |
a statement or proposition that seems selft-contradictory or adurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |
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alliteration |
the repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables. |
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assonance |
the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words. |
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theme |
a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composititon; topic. |
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consonance |
the use of the repetition of consonanys or consonant patterns as a rhyming device. |
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foreshadowing |
to present an indication or a suggestion of beforehand; presage. |
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ambivalence |
the coexistence within an individual of positive and negative feelings toward the same person, object, or action, simultaneously drawing him or her in opposite directions. |
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prophesy |
to foretell or predict. |
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meter |
the rhythmic element as measured by division into parts of equal time value. |
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personification |
a character portrayal or representation in a dramatic or literary work. |
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