| A | B |
|---|
| aside | an actor's remark to the audience that the other characters cannot hear |
| blank verse | poetry with a regular rhythm and line length (iambic pentameter) |
| dramatic irony | situation where a character is unaware of something the audience knows |
| iambic pentameter | a poem with 5 iambs in a line (an iamb is a set of unstressed and stressed syllables) |
| monologue | a long passage spoken by one actor |
| proscenium arch | the arch in front of the curtain in a play |
| Shakespearean sonnet | fourteen-line rhyming, descriptive poem written with iambic pentameter (abab cdcd efef gg) |
| Shakespearean couplet | two lined poem at the end of a sonnet that rhymes and has the same meter |
| soliloquy | the act of speaking when alone so the audience can know the actor's thoughts |
