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| alliteration | repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words |
| anachronism | an event or detail existing out of its proper time in history |
| aside | a short speech spoken by one character, as if thinking aloud |
| chorus | a group of actors used to introduce the play, summarize the plot, or comment on the action |
| imagery | a kind of word picture used to make an idea come alive; examples: simile, metaphor, personification |
| oxymoron | poetic use of opposites to express paradox; example: feather of lead |
| prose | language in which, unlike verse, there is no set number of syllables in a line and no rhyming |
| pun | use of a word with 2 meanings, or of similar-sounding words, where both meanings are appropriate in different ways |
| rhyming couplet | a pair of rhyming lines, often used at the end of a speech |
| soliloquy | a speech in drama in which a character speaks his thoughts aloud while alone |
| sonnet | a poem with 14 lines with an ABABCDCDEFEFGG rhyme scheme |
| tragedy | a play focusing on a tragic hero |
| tragic hero | a character whose nobility or achievement we admire, and whose downfall and death through a weakness or error, coupled with fate, arouses our sympathy |
| tragic flaw | a weakness in a hero that destroys him |
