| Trimeter | | A major division in the action of a play |
| Verse | | Actions turns out to have the opposite effect from the one its doer had intended |
| Epigram | | A drama written to be read rather than acted on a stage |
| Unities | | A long uninterrupted speech |
| Trilogy | | An evil habit or wicked tendency present in characters |
| Vice | | A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition |
| Aside | | A stanza or poem of four lines |
| Homeric Similie | | The differences between what is said or believed and what is actually the truth |
| Romantic comedy | | The first line of an italian sonnet |
| Free Verse | | A word, phrase, line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem |
| Prologue | | Literary work that mocks a person, place, thing or idea using irony sarcasm and understatement |
| Parallel | | A line of verse containing four feet |
| Epithet | | A literary composition, usually a novel or a play written in three parts |
| Refrain | | The end |
| Couplet | | Is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
| Stress | | Persona |
| Tetrameter | | A stanza or three lines |
| High Comedy | | A story acted out, usually on a stage |
| Tragic flaw | | A group of lines formng a unit in a poem |
| Protagonist | | A descriptive adjective or phrase used to characterize someone or something |
| Conventions | | unrealistic devices or procedures that the reader or audience agrees to accept |
| Parados | | The use of phrases, clauses or sentences that are similar complementary in structure or in meaning |
| Rising Action | | The idea that a play should be limited to a specific time, place, and story line |
| Closet Drama | | The hero or heroine or main character in a story |
| Hubris | | Epic simile, ends in a climax |
| Low comedy | | A series of difficulties forming the cenral action in a narrative |
| Complication | | A speecj, usually lengthy, in which a character along on stage expresses his or her thoughts aloud |
| Episodes | | Weakness or flaw of a character |
| Sonnet | | Patterns of rhymes in a poem indicated by a different letter of the alphabet for each new rhyme |
| Reversal peripety | | Comedy that involves ridiculous or hilarious complications without regard for human values |
| Comedy | | A set of conflicts and crises that constitute the parts of a play or story plot leading to the climax |
| Octave | | A three-line Stanza form borrowed from the italian poets |
| Tragedy | | poetry that expresses a speaker's personal thoughts or feelings |
| Terza Rima | | Plays almost no attention to human values, no literary value |
| Melodrama | | A greater regular pattern of stressed syllables in poetry |
| Drama | | The last six lines of an italian sonnet |
| Burlesque | | A fourteen line lyric poem |
| Masks | | Words spoken by a character in a play, not intended to be heard by other characters on stage |
| Denouement | | A verbal wit, such as puns |
| Tristich | | A weakness or limitation of charcter resulting in the fall of the tragic hero |
| Hamartia | | A line of poetry |
| Irony | | the song for the entrance of the chorus |
| Act | | a line of cerse consisting of three feet |
| Soliloquy | | Extreme pirde, leading to overconfidence |
| Farce | | A serious play having an unhappy ending |
| Quatrain | | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme |
| Monologue | | Articles or objects that appear on stage during a play |
| Iambic pentameter | | a preparatory scene |
| Rhyme Scheme | | Separated by danced choral songs |
| Props | | A brief witty poem |
| Lyric poetry | | Comedy which wittily protrays fashionable life |
| Seset | | Relies on slapstick and horesplay |
| Stanza | | Light play with a happy ending |
| Comedy of Manners | | Poetry that nas no fixed meter or pattern and that dpends on the natural speech rhythms |
| Villanelle | | Involves a love affair but meets with various obstactles |
