Drama Vocab

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A play on words involving similar-sounding words with dual meanings.

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Pun

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Words that are opposites in meaning.

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Oxymoron

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Reference to a well-known person, place, thing, or work of art.

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Allusion

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Characters in a drama that are opposite in nature, highlighting each other's qualities.

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Foil

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Contradiction between a character's belief and what the audience knows.

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Dramatic Irony

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A poem without rhyme and rhythm.

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Free Verse

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Poem style with 10 syllables/line and 5 beats.

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Iambic Pentameter

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Poem with consistent rhythm but no rhyme.

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Blank Verse

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A 14-line poem in iambic pentameter that rhymes

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Sonnet

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A pair of rhyming lines in a poem with the same rhythm and syllable count.

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Couplet