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| Oxymoron | A combination of contradictory terms (cold fire, sick health, heavy lightness) |
| Aside | A brief remark, unheard by the other characters on the stage, from a character to the audience |
| Soliloquy | A speech expressing the thoughts of a character who is alone on the stage |
| Monologue | A lengthy speech by one character who is not alone |
| Dramatic foil | A character who contrasts with another character |
| Iambic Pentameter | Iamb- a pair of syllabls is unstressed and the second is stressed Pentameter- A series of 5 rhythmic paterns |
| Sonnet | 14 lined poem usually written in Iambic pentameter, two common tipes are english and Italian |
| English/Shakespearean sonnet | 3 quatrains (4 line stanze) and one cuplet (2 line stanza) usually abab cdcd efef gg |
| Rhymed couplet | two rhymed lines- shakespear usually ends a scene with a thymed couplet |
| Blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Irony | when difference exists between appearing and reality or expectations and results or what is said, and what is meant |
| Dramatic Irony | contrast between what a character believes, and what the audience knows to be true |
| Alliteration | repitition of the same constant sound usually at the beginning of words |
| Assonance | repitition of vowel sounds |
| Simile | Comparison using like or as |
| Metaphor | direct compaison (no like or as) |
| Personification | giving something that isn't human, human characteristics |
| onomatpoeia | using a word whos sound imitates or suggests sound |
| parallelism | repition of similarly structured lines |
| symbol | anything that stands for or represents anything else. An object that serves as a symbol has its own meaning but it also represents abstract ideas |
