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29 Cards in this Set
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Drama
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the form of literature known as a play
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Dialogue
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the conversation carried on by the characters in a literary work
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Exposition
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introduces the characters, setting, situation, and other details crucial to understanding the literary work
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Setting
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the time and place in which the action of a literary work occurs
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Conflict
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the problem or struggle between two characters, groups or forces
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Internal Conflict
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a characters struggle to decide between two opposing ideas or values
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External Conflict
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struggle between two chatracters groups or faces
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Iambic Pentameter
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pattern of an emphasized syllable followed by an emphasized syllable repeated five times
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Couplet
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two line of poetry that rhyme and have the same meter (regular rhythm ) and contain a complete thought
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Meter
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the patterned repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
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Verse
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a metric line of poetry
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Blank Verse
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has a regular meter but no rhyme
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Soliloquy
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a speech delivered by a character when he or she is alone on stage, speaking to himself or herself. it is as though the character is thinking out loud
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Aside
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when a character briefly speaks to audience or to one other character on stage
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Monologue
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is an extended uninterrupted speech by a character in a drama when others can hear, usually revealing something important about the character
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Apostrophe
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in which a speaker directly addresses a person who is dead or otherwise not physically present
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Allusion
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a literary reference to familiar person, place, thing, or event - like calling a hero "superman"
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Foreshadowing
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giving hints or clues of what is to come later in a story
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Flashback
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returning to an earlier time in the story for the purpose of making something in the present clearer
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Dramatic Irony
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in which the reader or audience sees a characters mistakes but the character does not
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Suspense
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the growing excitement as the developments of a literary work reach the moment of climax
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Tragedy
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a literary work in which the hero is destroyed by some character flaw or by forces beyond his or her control, according to the Greeks and SHakespeare, the hero is also a person of high rank or power
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Tragic hero
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a character who experiences an ineer struggle because of a character flaw. THat struggle ends in the defeat of the hero
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Tragic flaw
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a weakness in a character which ultimately leads to a characters ruin
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Motive
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what a character does to get what he or she wants, needs and doesnt want. The characters motives determine what will happen in a story
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Stage Directions
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instructions for an actor on what to do, where to move, or how to sound, these are not supposed to be read out loud
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Mood
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the feeling a text arouses in a reader
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Tone
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The overall feeling or effect created by a writers use of words
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Theme
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the statement about life the writer is trying to get across in a piece of writing
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