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| sonnet | a 14 line poem, usually written in iambic pentameter |
| iambic pentameter | a line of poetry written in 5 iambic feet. William Shakespeare used it. |
| couplet | two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry |
| monologue | a long speech by one actor |
| soliloquy | a long speech made by a character in a play while no other characters are on stage |
| aside | a remark made by an actor, usually to the audience that the other characters on stage supposedly can not hear |
| prologue | introduction to a play |
| irony | discrepancy between appearance and reality |
| verbal irony | occurs when someone says one thing but really means something else |
| situational irony | takes place when there is a discrepancy between what is expected and what really happens |
| dramatic irony | often used on stage, a character in the play thinks one thing is true but the audience knows better |
| allusion | a reference to someone or something tha tis known from history, literature, Greek mythology, religion, etc. |
| oxymoron | a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase ex: icy hot |
