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Antigone
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English
10th Grade
11/02/2012

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Term
drama
Definition
is a kind of literatrue that is written to be per formed by actors for
an audience.
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plot
Definition
a plot is the series of related events that make up a story.
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confliet
Definition
is a struggle between acharater and opposing charater py opposing forces.
Term
setting
Definition
is the time and place in which a story
occurs.
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charater
Definition
a charate is a person {or an animal)in a literary work
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dialoyue
Definition
is the works charater speak.
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stage directions
Definition
are a playwright's written ins tructions about how actors should move and behave.
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scene
Definition
a scene is a section in a play in which all of the events accur in one place at one time.
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monoloyue
Definition
a monoloyue is a speach in which a charater speaks to a sflent or absent
ifs tener in a moment of deep emotion.
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soliloyuuy
Definition
special kind of monologue is a soliloyuy speech by a character alone on stage.
Term
Definition
whose words reveol what the or she is thinking or feeling.
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aside
Definition
in an side, a charater makes a briof remork, either to the audience or to another charater, that other on stage do not hear.
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exposition
Definition
the exposition introduces the charatera and setting.
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risingaction
Definition
the rising action buids susuense and show how the conflict becomes more complicated.
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climay
Definition
a play's climax is its most emotional or suspeneseful moment.
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falling action and resolution
Definition
the falling action eases the suspense and rereds the uotcome of the story's climax.
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dialogue and monologus
Definition
eor lier in this tutoriali you learned about the different ways character speak on stage.
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