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a literary work written to be acted or read in front of an audience, giving the names of characters and the words they speak, descriptions of setting and props, what the actors should wear and how they should speak. Plays are usually divided into acts and scenes.
a punctuation mark which links two or more words: step-sister; brother-in-law.
rhyming words at the end of the lines in a poem. Some common patterns for end rhyme are
...a style of writing and speaking that is poetic, although written in prose; that â??waxes...
a thematic element that recurs throughout a literary text or film. In film a colour, form, shape...
words or phrases before and after a difficult word or text that that help us understand it.