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36 Cards in this Set
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Homage
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get respect
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soothsayer
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fortuneteller
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vexed
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irratated
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mettle
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basic character
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portentous
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omnious
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prodigious
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large
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alchemy
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midevil magic
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spurn
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scorn or reject
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taper
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to reduce gradually, become smaller
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instigations
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insite or provoke
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gravity
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seriousness
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augurers
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forturneteller; interprets something
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rhetoric
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the art of knowing words
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enfranchsement
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grant fancisement to
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unassailable
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not opent to attack
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abridged
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deprive
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prostrate
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to go down onto ground because of humiliation
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vouchsafe
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to give or grant
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entreat
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to beg
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melancholy
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sober, gloomy state of mind; sad
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comic relife
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humorous scenes that relieve the tension created by the development of conflicts
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setting
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the time and place of the action of a play
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tragedy
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a serious play with a sad or unfortunate ending brought about fate, a moral weakness in character, or social conditions
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protaginost
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the central character in a play
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climax
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the turning point in the plot when interest and intensity reach their peak
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antagonist
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a character or force that works against the main character in a piece of literature, thus creating conflict
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aside
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a characters words spoken to the audience and supposedly not heard by the other characters on stage
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go ASIDE to talk
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characterization
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the technique writers use to create and describe characters
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comedy
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a play with a happy ending or a nontragic theme
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apostrophe
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addressing someone who isnt there
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conflict
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the struggle between opposing characters on forces in a play
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dialogue
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a conversation between two or more characters
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farce
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an exaggerated comedy based on highly unlikely stuation
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soliloquy
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a speech in which a character speaks as if to himself
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theme
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the main idea in a work of literature
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tragic hero
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the central character in a tragedy
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