A | B |
soliloquy | character, talking 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 |
simile | a comparison between two unlike things using like or as |
iambic pentameter | a meter in poetry consisting of five unrhymed lines-stressed and unstressed syllables |
allusion | a reference in literature to another literary work |
foreshadowing | 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 |
catastrophe | scene in a tragedy which includes the death/moral destruction of the protagonist |