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Comedy |
Definition - Amuses audience by emphasizing human limitations rather than human greatness and ends happily. (Two types) Example - A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare |
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High Comedy |
Definition - Characterized by grace, elegance and wit; intellectual comedy Example - The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope |
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Low Comedy |
Definition - Crude, boisterous comedy; slapstick and crude jokes; physical comedy Example - Twelfth Night by Shakespeare |
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Farce |
Definition - Type of drama related to comedy but emphasizing improbable situations, violent conflicts, physicalaction, and coarse wit over characterization or articulated plot. Example - The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare |
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Romance |
Definition - Type of drama whose likable characters are placed in difficulties from which they are rescued andattain their ends or have their good fortunes restored. Example - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas |
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Satire |
Definition - Blends ironic humor and wit with criticism directed at a particular folly, vice or stupidity. Satire seeksto correct, improve, or reform through ridicule. Example - “What’s the use you learning to do right, when it’s troublesome to do right and isn’t no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?” - Huckleberry Finn |
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Prologue |
Definition - An introductory section of a literary work or an introductory speech in a play. Example - “Two households, both alike in dignity (In fair Verona, where we lay our scene), From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life, Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.The fearful passage of their death-marked love And the continuance of their parents’ rage, Which, but their children’s end, naught could remove, Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage—The which, if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.” - Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeare |
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Epilogue |
Definition - A concluding section of any written work during which the characters’ subsequent fates are brieflyoutlined. Example - “A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun for sorrow will not show his head. Go hence to have more talk of these sad things, Some shall be pardoned, and some punished, For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” - Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeare |
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Exposition |
Definition - The setting forth of a systematic explanation of or argument about any subject; or the openingpart of a play or story, in which we are introduced to the characters and their situation, often by reference to preceding events Example - Act 1 of Othello by Shakespeare |
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In Medias Res |
Definition - Latin term which means “into the midst of things.” A story that starts in the middle of the action thengradually reveals the beginning by use of flashbacks. Example - Paradise Lost by John Milton |
