A | B |
tragedy | drama ends in a CATASTROPHE |
tragic hero | main character born into wealth or nobility and usually has a "fatal flaw" |
fatal flaw | a weakness or has a poor choice in judgment |
allusion | a mention within the play to something "outside the play" that the audience is ecpected to know |
foil | a character whose personality or attitudes or in sharp contrast (opposite)of another character |
soliloquy | when a character gives a speech alone a stage. Lets the audience know what he/she is thinking |
aside | a comment from one character to another or the audience that the other characters are not supposed to hear |
blank verse | uses unrhymed lines |
iambic pentameter | 5 unstressed syllables followed by 1 stressed syllable |
prose | non-rhyming sentences |
2 rhyming lines | couplet |