Dramatic/stylistic devices

• Soliloquy


  One character speaking to audience
• Dramatic irony


  When the audience knows something the character does not
• Hamartia


  a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine
• Catharsis


  the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions
• Anagnorisis


  Recognition or the tragedy to come
• Peripetieia


  Sudden reversal of fortune
• Rhyme


  Used by the witches to create chant-like, supernatural atmosphere