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19 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Tragedy
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A terrible event that has happened
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Prologue
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The intro
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Stage Directions
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The way a play is performed
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Sonnet
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A form of poetry
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Lambic pentameter
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Five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed ones.
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Blank Verse
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poem with no rhyme
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Couplet
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Two line poem
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Aside
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To be put away
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Dialogue
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Two charecters speaking to one another
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Foreshadowing
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Predicting what will happen
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Comic Relief
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A funny moment in a dramatic part of the story
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Dramatic Foil
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A charecter compared to the main one.
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Oxymoron
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A figure of speech where contradictory sayings work together.
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Dramatic Irony
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Where the reader knows more about the situation than the charecters
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Extended metahphor
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when an author exploits the metaphor through multiple lenths of the story
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Motif
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Decrortive
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Pun
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A play on words
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Monologue
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Speech delivered by one person
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i broke it
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whoops
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