| A | B |
|---|
| alliteration | repetition of initial sounds |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| consonance | repetition of consonants |
| allusion | reference to person, place, thing |
| aside | actor's speech to audience |
| couplet | complete thought written in two lines with rhyming ends |
| dialogue | conversation between characters |
| foreshadowing | hints or clues predicting later events |
| imagery | evokes the five senses |
| iambic pentameter | consisting of unrhymed line with five feet or accents |
| metaphor | comparing 2 unlike things saying one thing is another |
| oxymoron | putting 2 contradictory words together |
| personification | is giving human qualities to animals or objects |
| pun | a play on words |
| rhyme | repetition of an identical or similarly accented sound or sounds in a work |
| simile | comparison of 2 unlike things using like or as |
| soliloquy | speech delivered while the speaker is alone and reveals personal thoughts |
| Shakespearean Sonnet | has 3 quatrains and couplet |
| tragedy | a play that results in a catastrophe |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
