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15 Cards in this Set
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Dialogue
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conversation
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Plot
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arrangement of happenings or storyline
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Climax
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highest point of feeling or tension
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Blocking
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stage grouping
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Exposition
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tells the audience what it must know about the past or current situation
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Protagonist
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main character
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Soliloquy
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An actor alone on the stage expresses his thoughts
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Aside
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Speech in the presence of others, but they do not hear it
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Gesture
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motion of the limbs or body as a method of expression.
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Didactic
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play which teaches a lesson
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Comedy
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light dramatization, usually ending happily.
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Tragedy
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heavy dramatization of a serious happening; fall of a character.
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Act
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major division of a play.
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Scene
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minor division of a play.
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Prologue
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a spokesperson or narrator tells the audience what it needs to know to get into the action of the play.
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