Match the literary term (dramatic term) with the definition. prose pun comedy theme aside stage directions allusion parallel plots iambic pentameter irony 1. type of poetic meter, each line has 10 syllables total and are divided into 5 pairs of alternating stressed and unstressed syllables. 2. regular speech without rhyme or meter; may have used it to show lower social class or humor 3. reference to a famous person or thing 4. short series of lines delivered by a character directly to the audience or another character but not heard by all characters onstage 5. professional entertainment consisting of jokes and satirical sketches, intended to make an audience laugh; the play is an example of this 6. tells the actors in a play what to do as they act out the drama, not spoken by actors 7. helena: i bid you farewell. [exit helena.] 8. central message or insight into life revealed by a literary work. 9. two or more plots within one story that are linked by common characters, conflicts, or themes 10. 3 types: (dramatic) audience or reader knows what is going to happen, but the character does not (verbal) a contrast between what is stated and what is meant (situational) what is expected to happen and what actually happens.