See also comedy, drama, melodrama, tragedy. Triplet A tercet in which all three lines rhyme. See also tercet. Trochaic meter See foot. See also hyperbole, irony.
Unreliable narrator See narrator.
Verbal irony See irony. A generic term used to describe poetic lines composed in a measured rhythmical pattern, that are often, but not necessarily, rhymed. See also line, meter, rhyme, rhythm. See also fixed form, quatrain, rhyme, tercet. Well-made play A realistic style of play that employs conventions including plenty of suspense created by meticulous plotting.