2.  Augmenting: verb. Adding to; increasing  Bliss: noun. Eternal happiness  Despair: verb. Lose all hope or confidence  Endure: verb. Tolerate; put up with  Quench: verb. Extinguish; put out  Tormented: verb. Inflicted with pain or torture  Valiant: adjective. Strong and worthy of honor  Vile: adjective. Wicked; disgusting  Woe: noun. Deep sorrow; grief

3.  Allusion: reference to a well-known work of art, music, history or literature.  Blank Verse: non-rhyming poetry, usually written close to normal speech rhythms and patterns.  Comic Relief: a break in the seriousness of a tragedy (tragic play)  Euphemism: a substitution of a more pleasant expression for one whose meaning may come across rude or offensive.

4.  iamb: a unit in poetry consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.  iambic Pentameter: 10-syllable line divided into 5 iambic feet (1 unstressed syllable followed by 1 stressed syllable) basic rhythm of Shakespeare’s verse.  Oxymoron: When 2 opposite terms are used together (i.e. “O heavy lightness!” )

5.  Pun: a play on words, especially those that sound alike, but have different meanings. i.e. Romeo: “Not I, believe me. You have dancing shoes with nimble soles; I have a soul of lead.”  Rhyming couplet: 2 rhyming lines at the end of a speech, signaling that a character is leaving the stage or that the scene is ending.  Dramatic Irony: when the audience or reader knows something that the characters in the story do not know.