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Aside
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In drama, few words or a short passage spoken by one character to the audience while the other actors on stage pretend their characters cannot hear the speaker's words. Threatrical convention that this is not audible to other characters on stage. Usu. indicated by stage directions.
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Psst they cant hear me while we're next to ea. other
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Blank verse
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter. Unrhymed lines of ten syllables ea. w/even numbered syllables bearing the accents.
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When Shakespeare decides to fudge the iambic pentameter
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Foot/feet
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A basic unit of meter consisting of a set number of strong stresses and light stresses.
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4 warm-ups, 3 cool downs
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Iamb
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A unit or foot of poetry that consists of a lightly stressed syllable followed by a heavily stressed syllable. A.k.a. iambus
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unstressed stressed that's it
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Iambic pentameter
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Five meter rhyme containing a lightly stressed syllable followed by a heavily stressed syllable
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my horse my horse, my kingdom for a horse
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Meter
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A recognizable though varying pattern of stressed syllables alternating w/syllables of less stress. Compositions written in this are said to be in verse.
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4/4 time
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Prose
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Any material that is not written in a regular meter like poetry. Exs: short stories, novels, letters, essays.
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Like a musical where people just talk ocassionally
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Soliloquy
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A monologue spoken by an actor at a point in the play when the character believes himself to be alone. The technique frequently reveals a character's innermost thoughts, including his feelings, state of mind, motives or intentions.
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"Ha suckers."
"I heard that!" |
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Troche
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A two-syllable unit or foot of poetry consisting of a heavy stress followed by a light stress.
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2 x STRESS + stress
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Trochaic meter
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A line of poetry written in successive set of these is said to be written in this meter.
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Lap 1 STRESS stress and so on
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