A literary device in which a character is created based on a set of actions and qualities that is recognizable to the reader. (Example: The Hero)

Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.

A type of drama that presents a serious subject matter about human suffering and corresponding terrible events in a dignified manner.

Asked just for effect, or to lay emphasis on some point being discussed, when no real answer is expected.  May have an obvious answer, but the questioner asks it to lay emphasis to the point.

A person who faces adversity, or demonstrates courage, in the face of danger. However, sometimes he faces downfall as well.

A literary device in which the intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words. For this specific device, characters are oblivious to the situation but the audience is not.

A popular literary device often used in drama to reveal the innermost thoughts of a character by having a character talk to herself or himself.

 A short comment or speech that a character delivers directly to the audience, or to himself, while other actors on the stage appear not to hear. Only the audience knows that the character has said something to them.

One of the most commonly used meters in English poetry. A beat or foot that uses 10 syllables in each line. Simply, it is a rhythmic pattern comprising five iambs in each line, like five heartbeats.

A type of writing that is used to express an idea or somebody’s message in our own words, by maintaining the meaning of the original material.

A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. 

A literary device that can be defined as a trait in a character leading to his downfall, and the character is often the hero of the literary piece. This trait could be the lack of self-knowledge, lack of judgment, and often it is pride.

  A note or notation made in a side margin or as a footnote.

A literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer and more memorable

Notations in the script from the playwright, set aside with brackets,  that tell the actors where to sit, stand, move about, and enter and exit

The time and place (or when and where) of the story.

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