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| a comparison between two unlike things using the words like as, than, or resembles |
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| a long speech in which a character voices his/her feelings aloud |
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| a comment in which a character addresses certain characters out of many on stage or the audience |
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| a reference to a person, place, or event from history literature, mythology, or pop culture |
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| the repetition of the consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words |
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| when the audience or reader knows something important that a character in the play does not |
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| a poem that follows a rhyme pattern, is 14 lines long, and ends with a couplet |
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| a speech in which a character addresses one or more silent listeners |
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| a kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing is talked about as if it were human |
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| a group of two consecutive lines that rhyme |
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| a joke involving two words that sound alike but have two different meanings |
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| a comparison between two unlike things without using the words like, as, than, or resembles |
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| the pairing of words that are opposite or contradictory to make a phrase |
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