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10 Cards in this Set
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What Is A Tragedy?
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A serious play in which a hero is destroyed by his own failings and adverse events
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What Is A Tragic Flaw?
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A weakness in the main character that leads to his downfall eg Greed, Ambition
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What Is A Blank Verse
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Written in poetry form with Distinct line and rythm but unrymed
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What Is A Lambic Pentameter?
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A line of poetry consisting of 5 metrical feet, each foot consisting of a unstressed followed by a stressed syllabul
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What Is A Sonnet?
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A poem consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme and rhythm pattern
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What Is A Soliloquy?
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A speech in a play where a character is on stage alone speaking his thoughts aloud for the benefit of the audience
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What Is A Aside?
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A speech in a play where a character speaks to one or two characters (Or the audience) we understand that other characters cannot hear him/her
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What Is Dramatic Irony?
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When the audience knows something that one or more of the characters do not
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What is A Retoric?
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Language witch is orniate and filled with oratory devices and is calculated to persuade its audience
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What Is A Pun?
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When one word is deliberately given two meanings
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