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| a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience. |
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| A humorous scenes in a serious literary work or drama, especially a tragedy, intended to relieve the dramatic tension or heighten the emotional impact by means of contrast. |
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| when the words and actions of the characters of a work of literature have a different meaning for the reader than the characters |
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| A prose or verse composition, especially one telling a serious story, that is intended for representation by actors impersonating the characters and performing the dialogue and action. |
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| A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words |
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| A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener. |
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| a literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy |
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| a poetic form in which a single character, addressing a silent auditor at a critical moment, reveals himself or herself and the dramatic situation |
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| someone who undergoes through an important internal change because of the action in the plot. |
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| one whose personality doesn't change through a series of events. |
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| a long poem written about a hero or heroes. |
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| mode of expressing thoughts, language, or a form of speech |
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