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20 Cards in this Set
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Tragedy
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Ends with the death of a major character; usually teaches a lesson
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Tragic flaw
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Responsible for the tragedy
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Aside
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Character makes a speech that is hard by audience but not by other characters
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Soliloquy
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Character speaks their thoughts outloud
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Iambic pentameter
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Lightly stressed syllable followed by a heavily stressed syllable
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Blank verse
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Dramatic irony
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Audience knows something that characters do not
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Archaic language
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Word, expression, spelling, or phrase that is out of date in the common speech of an era
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Choral language
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A single-often in nature-that summarizes he events
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Persuasion
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The goal of an arugument to win the acceptance of one's ideas
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Fickle
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Instability, constantly changing their mind
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Mob mentality
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Behavior of people in large groups
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Soothsayer
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Prophet
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Contenance
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Appearance of the face (expression)
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Vexed
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Annoyed
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Portentous
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Amazing
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Cogitation
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Thought or relflection
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Construe
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To explain or interpret
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Torrent
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Rushing or violent
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Prodigies
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Extraordinary
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