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42 Cards in this Set
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hubris
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a kind of flaw: false pride, thinks too much of themself
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dike
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duty
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ethos
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characters
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mirror-learning
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learning by watching: mimicking muscle movement, emotions, ect
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catharsis
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purging (in theatre, purging of emotions in terms of clearing things up)
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pity
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all the emotions that come out (sympathy, hatred, love, etc)
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fear
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all the emotions that come in (self-hate/love)
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fate
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once something happens, you start down a path that you can't go back on: life is made by the gods nothing you can do to change it
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tragic comedies
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protagonist has a problem set in front of them-- no comic relief
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happy
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modern: cheerful, smiling
old: not something you could attain, only pursue (pursuit of happyness) |
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heroic tragedy
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when there's a hero who goes through tragedy and chooses to die/banish/prison/martyr themself for the benefit of others)
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prototypical
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the person who stands for us all (antigone, hamlet)
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typical
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a group of people (worker, mailman, teacher, etc)
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stereotypical
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a group of people reduced to a personality to so narrow a view that it's ridiculous (all cheerleaders are blonde)
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typified roles
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utility roles that end up being played as main characters (the student, the maid, the butler)
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modern tragic comedy
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rides the fence between comedy and tragedy-- both tragic and funny at the same time
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peripety
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a reversal of fortune/direction
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drama
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play, theater, action
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drame
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french term for "the modern drama"-- same thing as drama
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genre
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type (of play)
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low comedy
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biological, slapstick-- very physically focused (falling down, dirty jokes, food fight)
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middle comedy
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gender, good clean fun
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high comedy
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sophisticated behavior, language (puns, things said), manners (dress, act, talk)
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incongruous comedy
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incongruent, creates a picture in the mind that's unexpected (old woman and young men)
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the ridiculous comedy
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to laugh at, not with (making fun of people)
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the ludicrous
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people suffer, but it's funny-- life is unfair, ridiculous, ludicrous, but w/e it's a joke
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original irony
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deflating the braggart soldiers big ego and exposing the truth
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farse
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a play that will do anything to make you laugh (generally not real plot driven)
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burlesque
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strip-tease, skimpily clad women
(originally english burlesque houses much like SNL)-- makes fun of something by making a mountain out of a hole |
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spoofs
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parody, lampoon, travesty
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parody
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doing what it does (its style) and making it too big
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lampoon
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satire, meddle with peoples ideas
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travesty
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when you make something more crude, take its style down, lowering it
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bourgeois drama
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essentially same as tragedy but characters are exceptional or ordinary, won't necessarily fall but are unable to rise
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the pathetic
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people suffer at the hands of each other, whims of gods or cuz there's no true justice
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melodrama
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no dilemma exists: the common good person/people are antagonized by the evil but will triumph because of their goodness-- strict moral choices exaggerated
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lysistrata
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she who disbands armies
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prototypical
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stands for something that stands for all people rather than just a group
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typical
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stands for a group of people
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extraordinary
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noble (not necessarily of blood, but of actions-- not all noble blood is extraordinary)
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exceptional
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not going to fall, just not going to rise-- has a passion for things that won't work, exceptional traits
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functional/utility
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characters of necessity, but not necessarily of importance (messenger, guard)
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