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13 Cards in this Set
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Chorus
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Group of actors comment on action - model how the audience should respond
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Tragedy
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Drama in which the main character is brought to ruin or sorrow - usually because of a tragic flaw
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Comedy
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Dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance, resulting in a successful or happy conclusion
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Catharsis
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Purging of emotions, relieveing of emotional tension through art
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Hubris
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excessive pride
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Protagonist
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main character
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Antagonist
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Has conflict with protagonist
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Satire
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Use of sarcasm, irony, other humor to denounce (critique) vice or folly
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Allegory
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extended metaphor, a story that works on a literal and a symbolic level
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Soliloquy
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charachter "thinking out loud" without other characters on stage, way of conveying information directly to the audience
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Cuckold
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Man whose wife has cheated on him
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Blank Verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Iambic pentameter
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line of verse with 5 - two bead feet - 10 syllable line going unstressed stressed
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