| A | B |
|---|
| prose | ordinary written text |
| poetry | special arrangement of words with jagged right-hand margins |
| personification | to represent a thing as human |
| tragedy | a story with a sad ending |
| comedy | a story with a happy ending |
| prologue | an introduction to a literary work |
| epilogue | a speech to the audience by the actor at the end of a play |
| bard | poet |
| iambic | a metrical foot of poetry with one unstressed and one stressed syllable |
| pentameter | a line of verse containing five metrical feet |
| complication | drama term for rising action in which the tension builds because of the conflict |
| catastrophe | drama term for the hero's tragic faiilure, usually death |
| climax | peak of action and emotional turning point. |
| foil | character who contrasts sharply with another |
| dramatic conventions | devices theater audiences accept as realistic, even though they are not like real life. |
| soliloquy | lines in a drama where the character thinks out loud, yet to himself |
| aside | lines in a drama that the character speaks to the audience or one other character. No other actors can hear him. |
| blank verse | poetry that does not rhyme. |
| apothecary | pharmacist |
| free verse | poetry that does not rhyme and does not have a repeating metrical structure. |
