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19 Cards in this Set
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antagionist |
a character or force against which another character struggles. |
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casastrope |
the action at the end of a tragedy that initiates the denouement. |
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catharsis |
the purging of the feelings of pity and fear that, according to Aristotle, occur in the audience of tragic drama. |
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climax |
the turning point of the action in the plot of the play or story. |
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comic relief |
the use of a comic scene to interrupt a secession of intensely tragic dramatic moments. |
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dues ex machina |
a god who resolves the entanglements of a play by supernatural intervention. |
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diction |
the selection of words in a literary work. |
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dramatics personae |
Latin for the characters or persons in a play. |
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irony |
a contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen in life and in literature. |
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fourth wall |
the imaginary wall of the box theater setting, supposedly removed to allow the audience to see the action. |
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monologue |
a speech by a single character without another character's response. |
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pathos |
a quality of a play's action that stimulates the audience to feel pity for a character. |
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protagonist |
the main character of a literary work. |
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soliloquy |
a speech in a play that is meant to be heard by the audience but not by other character on the stage. |
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stage direction |
a playwright's descriptive or interpretive comments that provide readers (and actors) with information about the dialogue, setting, and action of play. |
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subplot |
a subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot. |
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syntax |
the grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue. |
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tragic hero |
a privilege, exalted character of high repute, who, by virtue of tragic flaw and fate , suffers a fall from glory into suffering. |
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tragic flaw |
a weakness or limitation of the character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero. |
