Cmn 396 Midterm

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soliloquy

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an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play

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Alliteration

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the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

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Foil Character

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Someone whom protagonist plays off of, makes protagonist look good or villain look worse.

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satire

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the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

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Tragedy

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a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character.

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Theatre

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a building or outdoor area in which plays and other dramatic performances are given.

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Climax

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A moment of great or culminating intensity in a narrative or drama, especially the conclusion of a crisis.

The turning point in a plot or dramatic action.

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Innuendo

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an allusive or oblique remark or hint, typically a suggestive or disparaging one.

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Globe Theatre

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Shakespear's personal theatre

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parabasis

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a point in the play when all of the actors leave the stage and the chorus is left to address the audience directly.

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Catharsis

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the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.

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Aristophanes

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Author of Lysistrata

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Parados

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an entrance affording access either to the stage (for actors) or to the orchestra (for the chorus) of the ancient Greek theater.

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Skene

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the background building to which the platform stage was connected, in which costumes were stored and to which the periakto (painted panels serving as the background) were connected.

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documentary theatre

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wholly or in part uses pre-existing documentary material (such as newspapers, government reports, interviews, etc.) as source material for the script, ideally without altering its wording.

The Exonerated

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Thrust Stage

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a performance space in which the stage breaks through and extends well past the proscenium arch. It reaches out into the auditorium, so that it is surrounded on three sides by the audience

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Tiring House

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The actors used this area to change their attire

contains the dressing rooms with access to the the prop room with connecting passage and stairways

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antithesis

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A figure of speech in which sharply contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in a balanced or parallel phrase orgrammatical structure,

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juxtaposition

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when you are being presented with two different images, ideas or characters (usually polar opposites) so that it brings about greater insight into the action of the scene, the play or the characters involved

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Reversal

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a situation seems to be developing in one direction then suddenly reverses to another (everything looks great, but then turns out to be bad)

Oedipus: Saves kingdom, actually dooms it

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Blank verse

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Verse written in iambic pentameter, without rhyme. Many of the speeches in the plays of William Shakespeare are written in blank verse; this example is from Macbeth: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,

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Incongruity

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a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play —called also dramatic irony, tragic irony

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Dramatic Irony

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irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play