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10 Cards in this Set
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Soliloquy
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A speech spoken by a character alone on stage, revealing their innermost thoughts
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Aside
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A speech spoken by a character in the presence of others, but by convention not heard by them
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Character foil
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A character whose behavior and personal qualities set off or enhance by contrast those of another character
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Dramatic irony
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The contrast between what a character knows and what another character or the audience knows
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Blank verse
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Malapropism
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The unintentional and humourous misuse of a word in place of another word that is closely resembles in sound
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Word play
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Usually humourous or ironic dialogue in which characters banter back and forth
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Rhyming couplet
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A rhymed, pithy two-lined speech ending a scene of a drama
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Bawdy humour
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Humour that is deliberately coarse or lewd, usually having sexual connotations
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Deus ex Machina
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The employment of some unexpected and improbable incident in a story
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