Meter - Playwright

Oxymoron

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

Paradoxical statement (or verbal paradox)

A figure of speech in which an apparently self-contradictory statement is nevertheless found to be true

Metonymy

A figure of speech in which come significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience

Overstatement (or hyperbole)

A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth

Personification

A figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept

Playwright

A maker of plays

Pentameter

A metrical line containing five feet

Monometer

A metrical line containing one foot

Paraphrase

A restatement of the content of a poem designed to make it's prose meaning as clear as possible

Moral

A rule of conduct or maxim for living expressed or implied as the "point" of a literary work

Paradoxical situation

A situation containing apparently but not actually incompatible elements

Paradox

A statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements

Phonetic intensive

A word whose sound, by an obscure process, to some degree suggests it's meaning

Octave

An eight-line stanza; the first eight lines of a sonnet, especially are structured in the manner of an Italian sonnet

Mystery

An unusual set of circumstances for which the reader craves an explanation; used to create suspense

Metrical variations

Departures from the basic metrical pattern

Nonrealistic drama

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

Narrator

In a drama a character, found in some plays, who, speaking directly to the audience, introduces the action and provides a string of commentary between the dramatic scenes

Onomatopoeic language

Language employing onomatopoeia

Motivation

The incentives or goals that, in combination with the inherent natures of characters, cause them to behave as they do

Meter

The regular patterns of accent that underlie metrical verse; the measurable repetition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry

Onomatopoeia

The use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound