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Aristotle
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Greek philosophy/philosopher, he loved wisdom, he was a very well rounded scholar, 1st person to define tragedy the genre.
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The Poetics
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name of the book where you can find Aristotoles theory of tragedy.
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Tragedy
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hopelessness, bad feelings, a horrible ordeal, causing by extreme sorrow/distress.
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Tagic Hero
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someone starting at a high social level and good morality, then ultimatley falls and ends up horribly, destroyed in life.
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Hamartia
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flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero.
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Catharsis
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the purging of the emotions of the audience at the end of a tragedy.
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pity and terror
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the 2 specific emotions purged from the aufience in a catharsis.
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classic
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something from ancient Greece or Rome, something that is the best of its kind,
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in medias res
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latin words meaning "in the middle of things", some books began in the middle of things.
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3 unities
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time,place, and action
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personna
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mask and character
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end-stopped line
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a line of poetry with a strong punctuation mark at the end, like a period or !.
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enjambent
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a sentence flows over from one line of poetry to the next with out an end-stop/
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dramatic irony
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when the character says something that is more important than he/she realizes or when the audience knows something the character doesnt.
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poetic justice
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when the punishment fits the crime.
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patricide
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the murder of a father
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infacticide
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the murder of a child or infant.
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regicide
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the murder of a king.
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stanza
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a group of lines in poetry, similar to a paragraph in prose,
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couplet
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2 lines of poetry usually united by a rhyme.
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tercet
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group of 3 lines.
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quatrain
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group of 4 lines
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Alliteration
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the repitition of intial consonant sounds.
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consonance
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the repitition of consonant sounds
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assonance
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the repitition of vowel sounds
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personification
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when you treat something that isnt human as a human
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extended metaphor
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a long metaphor that can be divided in parts
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pendant poems
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2 poems that hang together
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imagery
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language that appeals to the senses
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juxtaposition
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placing to things side by side
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onamatopoeia
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when the word supposedly imitates the sound that it names(boom, crack,hiss,etc.)
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paradox
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an apparent contradiction that really contains a hidden truth
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oxymoron
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a 2 word paradox.(bittersweet)
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aubade
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1) a poem about dawn,2) a poem about lovers parting,3) a poem about lovers parting at dawn
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figure of speech
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opposite of literal speech
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prose
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the opposite of poetry, normal everyday speech
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