| A | B |
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| aside | a short speech heard by audience, but not other characters in the play |
| soliloquy | a character, talking to themselves, and revealing their private thoughts and feelings |
| oxymoron | a phrase whose words are seemingly contradictory (i.e.-jumbo shrimp or loving hate) |
| pathos | a scene or passage in a play which evokes feelings of tenderness or sympathy from the audience |
| comic relief | a humorous scene intended to relieve dramatic tension |
| nemesis | a rival or opponent |
| chorus | a group of people situated on state and commenting throughout the play on events and characters' actions. They can give background information, make commentary on events as they happen, or help communicate the play's resolution |
| simile | a comparison of two objects using like or as |
| iambic pentameter | a non-rhyming line of poetry which has five repetitions of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable |
| allusion | a reference in literature to another well-known person, place, thing, idea, event, piece of literature, or work of art |
| foreshadow | clue/hint about what is going to happen |
| tragedy | a drama which ends in catastrophe (often with the hero dying) |
| blank verse | a poem written in unrhymed pentameter |
| couplet | a stanza of two lines, whose last words rhyme with each other |
| catastrophe | scene in a tragedy which includes the death or moral destruction of the protagonist |
