| A | B |
|---|
| soliloquy | character, speaking to themselves, reveals private thoughts/ feelings |
| aside | a short speech heard by audience but not characters in the play |
| comic relief | a humorous interlude intended to relieve dramatic tension |
| monologue | a long speech by an actor to the audience |
| iambic pentameter | a meter in poetry consisting of five unrhymed lines-stressed and unstressed syllables |
| drama | a literary work meant to be performed on stage in front of an audience |
| foreshadow | clue/hint about what is going to happen |
| tragedy | a drama ending in catastrophe |
| blank verse | poem written in unrhymed pentameter |
| couplet | a stanza of two lines, usually rhyming |
| act | large division in a play |
| scene | smaller division in an act |
| sonnet | 14 line poem in iambic pentameter |
| foil | a character whose personality is a contrast to another and shows up the differences |
| pun | a play on words |
| meter | the measure of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |
| quatrain | a four line stanza |
| stanza | a "paragraph" of poetry |
