| A | B |
|---|
| chorus | one actor alone on stage as narrator |
| foil | character whose personality is in striking contrast to another's |
| soliloquy | extended speech in which a character speaks his/her thoughts aloud while alone, thus communicating to the audience his/her mental state, intentions, or emotions |
| 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 |
| purged (759) | free from impurities; purified |
| anon (761) | in a moment ... just a minute |
| atomies | tiny fairy-like creatures |
| prodigious (761) | impressive, massive |
| palmer (758) | a pilgrim traveling to a holy place |
| aside | line not meant to be heard by other characters |
| blank verse | unrhymed verse |
| exeunt | all exit |
| prologue | an introduction |
| Shakespearean sonnet | 14 lines in iambic pentameter; 3 quatrains and one couplet |
| quatrain | a stanza or poem of 4 lines, often ABAB pattern |
| couplet | a stanza or poem of 2 rhyming lines |
| iambic pentameter | mter with 5 iambs/feet, following an unstressed/stressed syllabic pattern |
| end-stopped | a line which a natural pause at the end due to punctuation |
| run-on | a line which does not have a natural pause at the end |
| ear rhyme | words whose pronunciation rhyme, regardless of spelling |
| eye rhyme | words whose spellings would lead one to think that they rhymed, such as "daughter" and "laughter" |
| meter | the recurrence of a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| verse | poetry ... spoken by characters of higher social status |
| prose | "regular speech" ... spoken by servants/commoners |
| pun | a play on words, often humorous |
| personification | giving human traits to something that is not human |
| fortnight (748) | 14 days |
| visage (752) | face |
| foreboding | a feeling of evil or danger to come |
| maidenhead (736) | virginity |
| profane (758) | violate, desecrate |
| chinks (759) | money |
| "man of wax" (750) | perfect, without fault |
| soft (743) | wait |
| Ethiop | Ethiopian |
