a long speech delivered by a character who is alone on stage; typically reveals the private thoughts and emotions of a character comedy a type of drama that deals with light and amusing subjects; contain wit, humor, ridicule, and irony; often poke fun at people's faults and limitations in order to teach a life lesson tragedy a play in which a main character (tragic hero) suffers a down fall which may have resulted from outside forces or may have resulted from a weakness within the character (tragic flaw)