| A | B |
| Alliteration | a repitition os the initial sounds of several words in a group |
| Aside | a device in which characters in a drama makes a short speech; heard by the audience only |
| Comedy | dramatic work that is often humorous |
| Couplet | a stanza of 2 lines usually rhyming |
| Dialect | a regional or social variety of the language by pronunciation |
| dialogue | a conversation between characters |
| drama | a play |
| monologue | occurence of a single speaker talking to a single person |
| Props | objects used in plays |
| scripting | hand writing |
| Soliloquy | a moment when a character is alone and speaks his or her thoughts out loud |
| Sonnet | poem of 114 lines whose rhyme is fixed |
| stanza | major subdivision in a poem |
| tragedy | drama which is lpre-eminently the story of one person, the hero |