| A | B |
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| soliloquy | character, talking to themselves, reveals private thoughts/ feelings |
| aside | a short speech heard by audience but not characters in the play |
| comic relief | a humorous interlude intended to relieve dramatic tension |
| simile | a comparison between two unlike things using like or as |
| iambic pentameter | a meter in poetry consisting of five unrhymed lines-stressed and unstressed syllables |
| allusion | a reference in literature to another literary work |
| foreshadow | clue/hint about what is going to happen |
| tragedy | a drama ending in catastrophe |
| blank verse | poem written in unrhymed pentameter |
| couplet | a stanza of two lines, usually rhyming |
| catastrophe | scene in a tragedy which includes the death/moral destruction of the protagonist |
| groundling | patrons who stood on the ground to see the play |
| metaphor | direct comparison between 2 different things |
| comedy | play ending in triumph for the hero |
| history | play based, sometimes loosely, on historical events |
