Drama and Poetry Terms
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- Repetition of sounds at the beginning of words
- Short speech to the audience or another character that is not heard by other characters
- Unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter
- Attitude or feeling of a word
- Rhymed pair of lines
- A word's literal meaning
- Plots and characters developed through dialogue and actions
- Written conversation between 2 or more characters
- Character who provides a contrast to another character
- Short addition at the end of a literary work
- Exaggeration of the truth for emphasis or humor
- Comparison of 2 unlike things without "like" or "as"
- Mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding word
- Speaker addresses a silent or absent listener and goes uninterrupted
- A kind of concise paradox bringing together 2 contradictory terms
- Introductory scene in a drama
- Joke coming from a play on words
- Speech in which a character speaks their thoughts aloud
- Comparison of 2 unlike things with "like" or "as"
- Text in a play serving as a guide to readers or people involved in a performance
- Pattern of rhymes in a poem
- Group of 2 or more lines forming a unit in a poem
- Sound, word, phrase, or line being repeated for emphasis or unity
- Voice that "talks" to the reader
- Pattern of 5 units each made of 2 syllables, the first unstressed and the second stressed
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