monometer

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monometer

• Metrical line containing one foot

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Nonrealistic drama

• Drama that, in content, presentation, or both,
  departs markedly from fidelity to the outward
  appearances of life.

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octave

• An eight line stanza the first eight lines of a
  sonnet

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onomatopoeia

• Use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning
  in their sound

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Onomatopoetic language

• Language employing onomatopoeia

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overstatement

• Figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in
  the service of truth

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oxymoron

• A compact verbal paradox in which two successive
  words seemingly contradict one another.

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paradox

• A statement or situation containing apparently
  contradictory or incompatible elements

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Paradoxical situation

• Situation containing apparently but not actually
  incompatible elements.

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paraphrase

• Restatement of the content of a poem designed to
  make its prose meaning as clear as possible.

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pentameter

• Metrical line containing five feet

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personification

• Figure of speech in which human attributes are
  given to an animal, an object, or a concept.

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Phonetic intensive

• Word whose sound, by an obscure process,to some
  degree suggests its meaning.

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playwright

• Maker of plays

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Paradoxical statement

• Figure of speech in which an apparently
  self-contradictory statement is nevertheless
  found to be true.

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plot

• The sequence of incidents or events of which a
  story or play is composed.

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moral

• Rule of conduct or maxim for living expressed or
  implied as the point of a literary work.

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motivation

• Incentives or goals that, I combination with the
  inherent natures of characters, cause them to
  behave as they do.

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mystery

• Unusual set of circumstances for which the reader
  craves an explanation used to create suspense.

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narrator

• In drama a character, who speaking directly to
  the audience, introduces the action and provides
  a string of commentary between the dramatic
  scenes.