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| a lengthy speech addressed to other characters onstage, not the audience |
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| a long speech in which a character, alone on stage, expresses his or her thoughts to the audience |
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| when the audience knows more than the characters do |
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| saying one thing, but meaning the opposite |
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| giving human qualities to inanimate objects |
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a reference to something well-known
Ex: "Young Abraham...he that shot so trim..."/Biblical reference to Abraham that the audience at that time would easily understand |
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opposites
Ex: "O brawling love, O loving hate..." |
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| a statement that seems contradictory but is true; a longer version of an oxymoron |
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| comparing two unlike things not using "like" or "as" |
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| a type of poetic meter in which each line of poetry contains ten syllables with an unstressed, stressed pattern |
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| brief remark made by one character in the presence of others but assumed not to be heard by them |
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