Drama Vocab

A play on words that usually involves words that sound alike and have two meanings.

• Pun
• Oxymoron
• Allusion
• Foil

A combination of words that are opposite in meaning.

• Pun
• Oxymoron
• Allusion
• Foil

A reference to a well known person, place, thing, or work of art (book, TV show, movie).

• Pun
• Oxymoron
• Allusion
• Foil

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

• Pun
• Oxymoron
• Allusion
• Foil

A contradiction between what a character believes and what an audience or reader knows to be true.

• Dramatic Irony
• Free Verse
• Iambic Pentameter
• Blank Verse

A poem written without rhyme and rhythm.

• Dramatic Irony
• Free Verse
• Iambic Pentameter
• Blank Verse

A style of poem written with a consistent rhythm of 10 syllables per line and 5 "heartbeats" per line.

• Dramatic Irony
• Free Verse
• Iambic Pentameter
• Blank Verse

A poem written with the same rhythm each line beat but no rhyme.

• Dramatic Irony
• Free Verse
• Iambic Pentameter
• Blank Verse

A poem of 14 lines that rhymes written in iambic pentameter

• Sonnet
• Couplet
• Soliliquy
• Monologue

A pair of rhyming lines in a poem that have the same rhythm and the same number of syllables.

• Sonnet
• Couplet
• Solilquy
• Monologue