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| a story written to be acted for an audience |
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| a play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character |
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| a short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot |
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| fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes (Shakespearean-3 four-line units or quatrain, followed by a concluding two-line unit, or couplet;abab cdcd efef gg) |
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| direct, unadorned form of language, written or spoken, in ordinary use. |
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| a group who says who says things at the same time |
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| event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period |
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| a writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completely different |
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| the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know |
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| a speech by one character in a play |
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| an unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud |
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| character who is used as a contrast to abbot her character; writer sets off/ intensifies the qualities of 2 characters this way |
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| a combination of contradictory terms (Ex:jumbo shrimp) |
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| words that are spoken by a character in a play to the audience or to another character but that are not supposed to be overheard by the others onstage |
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| a play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound like but have different meanings |
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| humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot |
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| character who does not change much in the course of a story |
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| character who changes as a result of the story's events |
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| (no rhyme at the end of lines) Verse-poety written in unrhymed iambic pentameter ("pent"=5; "meter"=measure); each line of poetry contains 5 iambs, or metrical feet, that consist of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. |
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| two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; couplets often signal the EXIT of a character or end of a scene |
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