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16 Cards in this Set
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Plot |
what happens in a play |
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Diction/Language/Dialogue |
the playwright's word choices and the actors' enunciation while delivering their lines |
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music/rhythm |
Not music as we think of it, but rather the sound, rhythm, and melody of the speeches. |
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Theme |
what a play means as opposed to what happens |
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Spectacle |
the scenery, costumes, and special effects in a play |
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Tragic Hero |
the person born into nobility and responsible for his/her own fate, but he/she has the potential for greatness but is doomed to make one or more serious errors in judgment, often due to a tragic flaw |
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monologue |
a character speaks directly to another character or to himself or herself |
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soliloquy |
a character speaks his/her innermost thoughts when no other characters are on stage |
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aside |
a character says something to the audience that the other characters are not supposed to hear |
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Sonnet |
14 line poem example: prologue to act 1 |
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Couplet |
two lines that rhyme at the end i.e. There never was a story of more woe than that of Juliet and her Romeo |
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Foil |
Two characters that contrast each other i.e. Romeo and Mercutio |
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Oxymoron |
Definition: opposite ideas are combined Example: jumbo shrimp; loving hate |
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Metaphor |
Definition: Comparing two different things not using "like" or "as" |
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Simile |
Definition: comparing two different things using "like" or "as" |
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Personification |
Definition: giving human characteristics to something that is not human |
