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| Act | a major unit of a drama or play |
| Aside | in a play a comment that a character makes to the audience which other character onstage do not have |
| Comedy | a type of drama that is humorous and typically has happy ending |
| Dialogue | written conversation between characters in a literary work |
| Drama | a story written to be performed by actors before an audience |
| Dramatic irony | in dramatic irony the audience or reader knows information that the characater do not know |
| Foil | a character who provides a strong contrast to another character usually a man character |
| Iambic Pentameter | a specific poetic meter in which each line has five meter untic or feet and each foot consist of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
| Monolegue | a long speech or written expression of thought by a chacter in a literary work |
| Scene | subdivision of an act in a play |
| Soliloquy | a dramatic device in which a character along on stage several his or her private thought and feeling as if thinking aloud |
| Stage Direction | instruction written by a play wright that describe the apperance and action of a character |
| Tragedy | a play in which the man character or tragic hero suffers a down fall as a result of a fatal character flaw error in judgement or forces beyond human a natrol such s fate |
| Blank verse | unrhymed poetry or dramatic verse written in a meter know as iambic pentameter |
