| A | B |
|---|
| chorus | one actor alone on stage as narrator |
| foil | character whose personality is in striking contrast to another's |
| soliloquy | speech a character gives alone on stage |
| oxymoron | phrase or expression that is seemingly contradictory |
| dramatic irony | audience knows info that characters do not |
| foreshadowing | technique of hinting about events to come |
| comic relief | humorous scenes that relieve the emotional intensity |
| bawdy | rude, low-brow, of questionable taste |
| buffoon | a ridiculous clown, a fool |
| garrulous | overly talkative |
| vile | horrible, terrible |
| rapier | sword |
| discourses | speaks |
| enmity | hatred |
| vexed | angered |
| chide | scold |
| vial | small bottle |
| pestilence | disease that spreads to many |
| discords | arguments |
| aside | line not meant to be heard by other characters |
| blank verse | unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter |
| iambic pentameter | five stressed, five unstressed syllables |
| pun | joke based on a play on words |
| prologue | introduction spoken by chorus-guy |
| innuendo | veiled hint or insinuation |
