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This is the poetic language that includes meter and rhyme:

• verse

• prose

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

This is ordinary written language:

• verse

• prose

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.4

Low status characters, drunks and villains use this language:

• verse

• prose

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Royalty, high status characters use this:

• verse

• prose

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

An extended speech by a character to other characters:

• aside

• monologue

• soliloquy

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A short remark to the audience or another character that others don't hear:

• aside

• monologue

• soliloquy

A long speech to the audience:

• aside

• monologue

• soliloquy

Tags

CCSS.SL.9-10.3

A character whose personality or attitudes are in contrast to those of another character:

• protagonist

• antagonist

• foil

• counterpart

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Defect of the character that leads to his/her downfall:

• tragedy

• tragic flaw

• tragic hero

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Shakespeare wrote primarily:

• verse

• prose