dramatic irony - When the audience has awareness of a situation which the characters do not., aside - An aside is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience or a character on stage. The other characters are unaware of this conversation., soliloquy - passage in a drama in which a character expresses his thoughts or feelings aloud while either alone upon the stage, rhyming couplets - A rhyming pair of successive lines of verse, typically of the same length, context - Referring to events and ideas surrounding when the play or text was written, tragedy - These types of plays end on a tragic note and most likely a character’s death., hamartia - A fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine, climax - the point at which the highest level of interest and emotional response is achieved, resolution - It is the unfolding or the solution to a complex issue in a story., tragic hero - A character in a dramatic tragedy who has virtuous and sympathetic traits but ultimately meets with suffering or defeat, motif - A recurring element in a literary work, meaning the idea or image occurs again and again., equivocation - A figure of speech that seems to contradict itself, but which, upon further examination, contains some kernel of truth or reason., Divine right of Kings - Kings derived their authority from God and were chosen by God, Regicide - The killing of a rightful king.,

Dramatic Terms for Shakespeare

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