| A | B |
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| allusion | a reference to an aspect of culture, religion, mythology, etc. |
| tragedy | serious actions with an unhappy ending |
| conflict | The struggle between persons or forces in a work of drama or fiction |
| dramatic irony | reader/audience knows something that the character does not |
| imagery | appeals to the senses, such as color and sounds |
| aside | spoken bycharacter to audience without other characters on stage aware |
| personification | objects are given human qualities |
| alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
| hyperbole | a figure of speech in which teh trouth is exaggerated for emphasis |
| metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things that have something in common |
| simile | a comparison between two unlike things using like or as |
| oxymoron | a paradox that brings together two opposite terms |
| rhymed couplet | two consecutive lines whose last words rhyme |
| sililoquy | character expresses private thoughts to audience |
