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12 Cards in this Set
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aside |
a speech heard by the audience but not by other characters on stage |
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blank verse |
unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter |
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comedy |
concerns lovers and always concludes happily with a wedding |
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epilogue |
a final address to the audience delivered by a character |
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prologue |
address to audience given by a chorus figure |
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history plays |
chronicles of english history, stories of english kings |
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imagery |
language that appeals to the sense of sight |
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play within a play |
staging a drama as part of the action of a play |
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problem plays |
used to describe atleast 3 of shakespeares plays neither comedy nor tragedy |
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romances |
potentially tragic beginnings that give way over a period of time to mercy redemption and peace |
"tragicomedies" |
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soliloquy |
a speech delivered by a character alone onstage or whose presence is unrecognized by other characters |
talking to self |
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tragedy |
story of a noble who is destroyed because of a flaw |
ends in his death but first experiences insights that make him a fuller human being |
