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28 Cards in this Set
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Logical
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Facts/brain
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Ethical
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Right/or wrong/beliefs
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Emotional
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Feelings/heart/soul
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Exposition
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Creates tone, states setting, and provides background. Act 1
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Incentive moment
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Point at which the tragic hero becomes aware of the possibilities for action .Act 1
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Initial Incident
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Actual first piece of action done by the tragic hero. Act 1
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Rising action
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Complication; the building of tension caused by the conflict of opposing interests. Act 2
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Climax
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Also called the turning point; the peak of action and emotional intensity. Act 3
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Falling action
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Stresses action from the forces opposing the hero; suspense must be maintained while action moves swiftly and logically toward the disaster-the tragedy. Act 4
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Catastrophe or Resolution
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The moment marking the hero's tragic failure. Often manifested by his death. Act 4
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Aftermath
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Act v. The ending. The good that comes out.
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Blank verse
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Unrhymed poetry in iambic pentameter. Ten syllable lines.
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Anachronism
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An event or detail in a literary work that is placed outside its proper historical period.ex. Julius Caesar not placed in Shakespeare time.
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Soliloquy
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A long speech given by an actor alone of stage who speaks his thoughts and feelings directly to the audience.. Ex Cassius
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Character Foil
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A character who develops another through contrast
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Tragedy
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Depicts death or destruction of a hero. Hero suffers because of a tragic flaw.
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Tragic Hero
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A great man who through some flaw of defect in an otherwise noble character brings about his own destruction.
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Tragic Flaw
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A fault in character which leads to a great man's destruction.
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Men at some time are masters of their fates…
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Cassius
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Let me have men about me that are fat
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Caesar
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When beggars die, there are no comets seen
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Calpurnia
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Stoop, then, and wash
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Cassius
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Friend, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears
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Antony
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For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel.
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Antony
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This was the noblest Roman of them all
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Antony
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Analyze characterization
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The character itself, facts, and basic knowledge
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Objectivity
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Things the person did with no opinion
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Subjectivity
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Your opinion on things
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