| A | B |
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| Fickle | Characterized by erratic changeableness or instability, especially with regard to affections or attachments |
| Soliloquy | A speech given by a character who is alone on stage |
| Aside | When a character onstage speaks to the audience and not the other characters |
| Monologue | A long speech given by a single character |
| Stage directions | Instructions for staging a play; not read aloud |
| Couplet | Two consecutive lines that rhyme |
| Drama | Literature meant to be performed onstage |
| Tragedy | A play in which the main character suffers a downfall |
| Tragic hero | The main character in a tragedy; he suffers a downfall due to a tragic flaw. |
| Tragic flaw | The flaw in the main character that brings about his/her downfall |
| Chorus | The group of people who come onstage to summarize what has happened and what will happen at the beginning or end of an act |
| Benevolent | Characterized by concern for others and/or good works |
| Malevolent | Having or exhibiting ill will; wishing harm to others; malicious |
| Sarcastic | Contemptuous or ironic in manner or with;Nasty or mocking in speech |
| Flippant | Marked by disrespectful levity or casualness;Irreverent |
| Impartial | Unprejudiced;Unbiased |
| Apothecary | Someone who prepares and sells medicines |
| Shrift | Confession to a priest |
| Sonnet | A fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter |
| Iambic pentameter | Lines of poetry consisting of five iambic feet ( an unstressed then a stressed syllable)There will be 10 syllables per line |
