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Drama Terms. Soliloquy. A single character alone on stage thinking out loud A way of letting the audience know what is on the character’s mind. Aside.
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Soliloquy • A single character alone on stage thinking out loud • A way of letting the audience know what is on the character’s mind
Aside • 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 • A way for characters to tell a secret
Foil • A character who is used as a contrast to another character
Tragic flaw • A trait that leads a character to his/her downfall
Comic Relief • A bit of humor in a serious play to relieve tension and create suspense
Pun • A play on words • A pun plays on the multiple meanings on two words that sound alike but have different meanings
Iambic meter • Each unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable
Iambic pentameter • Five iambic units in a line • “But soft. What light through yonder window breaks?”
Blank verse • Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
couplet • Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Foreshadowing • Lines that give hints or clues to future events
Verbal Irony • A contrast between what is said and what is meant
Dramatic Irony • A contrast between what the audience knows and what a character does not know