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.

11-32. the main character in the parable, the forgiving father, whose character remains constant throughout the story, is a picture of god. in telling the story, jesus identifies himself with god in his loving attitude to the lost. the younger son symbolizes the lost (the tax collectors and sinners of that day, luke 15: 1), and the elder brother represents the self-righteous (the pharisees and teachers of the law of that day, luke 15: 2). the major theme of this parable seems not to be so much the conversion of the sinner, as in the previous two parables of luke 15, but rather the restoration of a believer into fellowship with the father. in the first two parables, the owner went out to look for what was lost (luke 15: 1-10), whereas in this story the father waits and watches eagerly for his son's return. we see a progression through the three parables from the relationship of one in a hundred (luke 15: 1-7), to one in ten (luke 15: 8-10), to one in one (luke 15: 11-32), demonstrating god’s love for each individual and his personal attentiveness towards all humanity. we see in this story the graciousness of the father overshadowing the sinfulness of the son, as it is the memory of the father’s goodness that brings the prodigal son to repentance (romans 2: 4).