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| 3829534087 | Aside | A remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters on stage. | 0 | |
| 3829542004 | Monologue | (n.) a speech by one actor; a long talk by one person | 1 | |
| 3829545954 | Soliloquy | A dramatic speech, revealing inner thoughts and feelings, spoken aloud by one character while alone on the stage. | 2 | |
| 3829548456 | Allusion | A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, mythical, literary or political significance. | 3 | |
| 3829550730 | Foil | A character who acts as a contrast to another character | 4 | |
| 3829555779 | Tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character | 5 | |
| 3829558316 | Tragic Hero | A literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on misfortune | 6 | |
| 3829567843 | Tragic Flaw | the character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall | 7 | |
| 3829570856 | Verse | writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme | 8 | |
| 3829572135 | Prose | Any writing that is not poetry | 9 | |
| 3829574220 | Meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | 10 | |
| 3829574221 | Foot | A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. | 11 | |
| 3829578739 | Blank Verse | Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter | 12 | |
| 3829581877 | Iambic Pentameter | a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable | 13 | |
| 3829585273 | Free Verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 14 | |
| 3829587017 | Sonnet | A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter (classic definition); any fourteen-line poem (modern definition) | 15 | |
| 3829593600 | Quatrain | A four-line stanza | 16 | |
| 3829595488 | Octave | An eight-line stanza | 17 | |
| 3829600448 | Sestet | A six-line stanza | 18 | |
| 3829604349 | Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; these lines can be part of a stanza or set apart as its own stanza | 19 |
