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a play of serious actions that ends unhappily

• blank verse

• dramatic irony

• tragedy

• comedy

poetry with ten syllables per line, alternating an unstressed one with a stressed one

• run-on line

• iambic pentameter

• sonnet

• blank verse

several lines spoken by one character alone on stage

• sonnet

• monologue

• soliloquy

• aside

14 lines of poetry that rhymes and is written in iambic meter

• sonnet

• soliloquy

• blank verse

• end-stopped line

two lines of poetry in a row that rhyme

• duo rhyme

• couplet

• consecutive lines

• iambic meter

a word that means "before"

• ere

• e'er

• be'en

• forthwith

an expression that combines contradictory ideas together

• dramatic irony

• tragedy

• oxymoron

• tragic flaw

a main character in a tragedy

• flat character

• round character

• monologue

• tragic hero

poetry that's written in iambic meter but doesn't rhyme

• poem

• couplet

• blank verse

• sonnet

a play that ends happily, usually in a wedding

• tragedy

• drama

• comedy

• Shakespeare