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Dramatic Terms
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Speech by a person who is talking to himself or herself a character reveals his thoughts to the audience but not to other characters in the play. Hamlet’s famous soliloquy begins with the line “To be or not to be…”
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the character is speaking his or her thoughts aloud, directly addressing another character, or speaking to the audience
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a dramatic device in which a character speaks (NOT at length) to the audience without the other characters hearing what is said serves to reveal a character's thoughts or concerns to the audience
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Conversation or speech characterized by quick, witty comments EXAMPLE Lady Nancy Astor to Winston Churchill: “"Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put poison in your coffee." Churchill famously replied: “ "Nancy, if you were my wife, I'd drink it."
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A pun is a figure of speech which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious EX: Sir Lancelot once had a very bad dream about his horse. It was a knight mare.
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