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| a speech in which a character, alone or on stage, expresses his or her thoughts to the audience |
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| a lengthy speech that is addressed to other characters, not the audience |
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| a remark made to the audience, unheard by other characters |
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| A character that serves by contrast to highlight or emphasize opposing traits in another character |
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| members of the audience are aware of events that the characters on the stge are not...adds suspense and tension to a play |
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| a drama in which the central character suffers disaster or great misfortune |
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| defect or weakness in a person's character |
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| an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future |
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| a recurrent element in a literary work; fate and light & darkness |
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| A play on two words similar in sound but different in meaning |
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| A lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to certain definite patterns |
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| Two lines--the second line immediately following the first--of the same metrical length that end in a rhyme to form a complete unit. |
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| the use of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur |
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| a contrast between appearance and reality; when one thing is expected to happen or be, and the exact opposite occurs |
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| a single character who, as developed in Greek drama, functions as a narrator offering commentary on the play’s plot and themes. |
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