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| Dialogue | The spoken exchange of words between two or more characters. |
| Aside | When a character says something privately to another while other characters are also on stage. The lines are meant for one character's ears alone. |
| Tragedy | A genre of a play that end in death. |
| Comic Relief | A humorous scene or comment that lessons the tension found throughout a tragedy. |
| Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter taht Shakespeare's plays are mostly written in. |
| Oxymoron | Words that are put togheter and are opposite in meaning; cool fire, hateful love |
| Soliloquy | a type of monologue when a character makes a long speech about his/her true feelings. |
| Dramatic Irony | When a character says something, but the audience knows more than a character does about other characters or events. |
| Pun | A play on words in which a word or phrase can be taken to mean more than one thing. |
| Iambic Pentameter | A line in poetry which is ten sylables in length. |
| Allusion | Afigure of speech that makes reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object. |
| Irony | name given to moments that involve surprising, interesting, or ausing contridictions. |
| Stage Direction | A description(as of a character or setting) or direction (as to indicate stage business) provided in the text of a play, usually in italics and or ( ). |
| Comedy | Type of play where all the characters end up happy in the end. |
