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16 Cards in this Set
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Character-dynamic
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Complex characters that have multiple dimensions to their personalities
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Character-static
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A character that does not change much in the course of the story
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Climax
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The tensest or most exciting part of the plot when the outcome of the conflict is imminent
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Complication
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Events in the course of a plot that decelop the conflict
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Exposition
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The basic situation, which introduces the characters,setting, and usually the story's major conflict
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Hero
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man of distinguished courage or ability, admired, for his brave deeds and noble qualities
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Protagonist
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the main Character in fiction or drama
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Antagonist
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character or force the comes into conflict with the protagonist
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Theme
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the central idea or insight of a work of literature
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Tone
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The writer's or speakers attitude towards his subject, his audience, or himself
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Personification
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a figure of speech in which human attributed are given to an animal
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Tragedy
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A play,novel, or other narrative depicting serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end
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Tragic flaw
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the character weakness, which results in the downfall of the main character in a tragedy
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soliloquy
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a long speech in which a character who is alone on stage expresses a private thought or feeling
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catharsis
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purging of the emotion or relieving of emotional tensions especially through a work of art, as of tragedy or music
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Hubris
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excessive pride or self confidence; arrogance
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