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| one of the main divisions of a play |
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| the adversary of the hero or protagonist of the drama |
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| the process of recognition the protagonist undergoes in which he or she sees his or her own nature, destiny and the real situation more clearly than before |
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| the lines spoken in undertone or directly to the audience |
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| a sudden change from a serious subject to a trivial one |
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| the final action that brings about the unraveling of the plot |
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| the effect of a tragedy on the audience in which they purge the emotions of pity and fear at the end of the play |
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| a group of actors or a single actor serving as commentators on or as a supplement to the main action of the drama |
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| a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance, resulting in a successful or happy conclusion |
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| an amusing scene, incident, or speech introduced into serious or tragic elements in a play, in order to provide temporary relief from tension, or to intensify the dramatic action |
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| the struggle between two opposing forces or characters |
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| a pair of lines of verse that rhyme and are of the same length |
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| a conversation between two or more characters |
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| when the audience knows something that the characters on stage do not know |
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| a character that makes another, often the protagonist, seem better by contrast |
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| a character's flaw, also known as the tragic flaw |
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| the excessive pride of the protagonist which leads to his or her downfall |
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| a lengthy discourse made by one speaker, monopolizing the conversation |
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| the power of arousing pity, sadness or compassion |
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| the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure |
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| the leading character, hero or heroine of a drama or other literary work |
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| refers to a change by which the action veers round to its opposite (also known as peripeteia) |
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| a division of a play or of an act of a play |
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| a speech, often lengthy, in which a character, alone or on stage, expresses his or her thoughts aloud |
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| an instruction written into the script of a play, indicating stage actions, movements of performers, or production requirements |
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| a type of drama, as opposed to a comedy, that depicts the casually related events that lead to the downfall of the protagonist |
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| the protagonist of a tragedy who is brought to an untimely end by a particular flaw as well as through the actions of fate or choice |
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| a particular type of metrical line |
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| the repetition of words at the beginning of consecutive phrases. |
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| the repetition of words at the ending of consecutive phrases |
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| no conjunctions – the omission of conjunctions between phrases or elements in a list |
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| lots of conjunctions – inserting conjunctions between every phrase or element in a list |
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| a word that attempts to imitate a sound in the real world |
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| exaggeration, usually for specific purposes |
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| is the creation of a unified and sustained appeal to a specific idea or sense |
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| A passing reference, often to a piece of fiction or fictional character |
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| Events and details told by the author and not shown through the conversation or observation of one of the characters |
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| The event(s) that triggers the conflict |
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| This is the incident in which the fortunes of the protagonist are decided; for the protagonist, the plot takes either a turn for the better of a turn for the worse |
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