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Aside
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a short speech delivered by an actor in a play, directed to the audience, and inaudible to the other actors.
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monologue
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a speech by one character in a play, story, or poam.
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soliloquy
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a long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage.
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Dramatic Irony
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a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows to be true.
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Flat and Round Characters
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flat characters: shows only one trait.
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Plot
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the sequence of events in a literary work.
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Plot diagram
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a diagram that outlines a plot.
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exposition
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writing or speech that explains a process or presents info.
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Rising Action
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All events leading up to the climax.
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climax
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the high point of interest or suspense
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Fallen Action
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leads to the denouement.
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Resolution
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denouement.
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Hubris
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pride, arrogrance.
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Tradgedy
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a work of lititure that results in a cattastrophe for the main character.
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Tragic hero
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main character, significent person. Has somthing tragic occur to them and they turn out the hero.
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Groundlings
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the poorer part of the audience.
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the pit
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bottomless, doomed.
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Allusion
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a reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.
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Paraphrasing
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rewording in less tecnical terms.
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hyperbole
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a deliberate exaggeraton or overstatement.
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Dramatic foil
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a foiled attempt.
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Inference
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the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of evidence.
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Metaphor
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a figure in speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were somethng else.
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Simile
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a figure of speech n which like or as is used to make a comparison between two basically unlike ideas.
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Personification
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a type of figuritive language in which a nnhuman subject is given human characteristics.
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concrete detail
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a known fact.
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commentary
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a personal opinion.
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chunk
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a part of a paragraph: 1 concrete detail, 2 commentary.
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