 Unrhymed verse especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse.

 An utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present (often used as a device in drama to disclose a character's innermost thoughts). To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them:

 Part of an actors lines supposedly not heard by others on stage and intended only for the audience.

 A part of a drama in which a single actor speaks alone, at length.

 Irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.

 A dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically that of a great person destined through a flaw of character or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate or society, to downfall or destruction.

 A figure of speech in which a spoken phrase is devised to be understood in either of two ways.  A double meaning.

 A play on words.  A joke.

 A passing reference, without explicit identification, to a literary or historical person, place, or event, or to another literary work or passage.

 A word or expression that in literal usage denotes one kind of thing is applied to a distinctly different kind of thing, without asserting a comparison.

 A comparison between two distinctly different things explicitly indicated by the words “like” or “as”

 A part of something used to signify the whole.

 The literal term for one thing applied to another with which it has become closely associated because of a recurrent relation in common experience.

 Either an inanimate object of an abstract concept is spoken of as though it were endowed with life or with human attributes or feelings.

 Contrary ideas expressed in a balanced sentence. O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show! Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st, A damned saint, an honourable villain! O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell, When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend In moral paradise of such sweet flesh? Was ever book containing such vile matter So fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell In such a gorgeous palace!

 A paradoxical utterance that conjoins two terms in that in ordinary usage are contraries.

 A statement which seems on its face to be logically contradictory or absurd, yet turns out to be interpretable in a way that makes sense.

 A person who composed and recited epic or heroic poems.  Example: The Shaper in Grendel