Unit 6: Lesson 1

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  1. tragedy
    drama exciting terror or pity
  2. dramatic irony
    when the audience understands something the characters don't
  3. soliloquy
    a dramatic speech giving the illusion of unspoken reflection
  4. aside
    a line spoken by an actor not intended for others on stage
  5. blank verse
    unrhymed poetry, usually in iambic pentameter
  6. iambic
    of metrical units having an unstressed/stressed pattern
  7. pentameter
    a verse line having five metrical feet
  8. repetition
    the continued use of the same word or word pattern
  9. parallelism
    similarity by virtue of corresponding
  10. rhetorical question
    an inquiry that is not supposed to be answered
  11. antithesis
    the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas for balance
  12. stage direction
    instruction or description written in the script of a play
  13. dialogue
    the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction
  14. paraphrase
    express the same message in different words
  15. foil
    a person or thing that serves to contrast with another
  16. archaic
    so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
  17. subject
    one of the two main constituents of a sentence
  18. predicate
    the constituent of a sentence containing the verb
  19. comprise
    be made of
  20. incidence
    the relative frequency of occurrence of something
  21. predominant
    having superior power or influence
  22. priority
    status established in order of importance or urgency
  23. ultimate
    furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme
Created on Mon Aug 31 15:21:02 EDT 2020 (updated Thu Sep 03 16:18:37 EDT 2020)

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