| 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 |
