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12 Cards in this Set
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Aside
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short speech or line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
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Pun
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a play on words involve a single word or phrase that has two different meanings
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Oxymoron
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a figure of speech that puts together two opposing or contradictory ideas
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Monologue
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may be addressed to audience or another character.. like a soliloquy, but overheard
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Dramatic Irony
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irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters on the stage.
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Prologue
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a preface or intoductory part of a novel or poem
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Sonnet
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a poem that has 14 lines, 10 syllables with iambic pentameter
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Couplet
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a pair that rhyme and are the same length (i.e. ababcdcdefefgg)
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Foreshadowing
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hints or clues that tells what is going to happen
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Soliloquy
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a person who is talking to himself or herself alone expressing their thoughts
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Epilogue
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the concluding part, after the conclusion (opposite of the prologue
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Blank Verse
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poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines
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