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- 4. Conversation between two or more people as feature of a book, play, or movie
- 5. A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line
- 8. A separate introductory section of a literacy or musical work
- 11. Be a warning or indication of a future event
- 12. A group of performers who comment on the main action typically speaking and moving together
- 14. A remark or passage by a character in a play that is not intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play
- 15. A poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events
- 17. An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play
- 19. Love that is not openly reciprocated or understand as such by the beloved
- 21. Two characters have opposite personalities, causing a specific trait to stand out
- 23. The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect
- 24. When a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same
- 25. Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme that form a unit
- 26. A fanciful expression in writing or speech; an elaborate metaphor
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- 1. A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
- 2. A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
- 3. A line of verse with five metrical feel, each consisting of one short (unstressed) syllable followed by one long (stressed) syllable
- 6. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable
- 7. A prolonged armed struggle
- 9. The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
- 10. A play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character
- 13. Melodramatic, self-consciously suffering and has given up to the power of his mistress
- 16. Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter
- 18. Make a joke exploiting different possible meanings of a word
- 20. The subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic
- 22. The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse