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A drama: a play
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Allusion: an indirect reference by casually mentioning something that is generally familiar (ex. Mythology, the Bible, History)
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antagonist: person or thing opposing the main character
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Aside: lines that are whispered to the audience or to another character on stage (not meant to be heard by all the characters on stage)
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Blank Verse: a form of unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter, lines that ideally have five unstressed syllables each followed by a stressed syllable. However, the pattern is not perfect. (very common in all of Shakespeare's plays)
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Catastrophe: the final event is a drama (a death in a tragedy or a marriage in a comedy)
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Comedy: a light play with a happy ending
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Comic Relief: a bit of humor injected into a serious play to relieve the heavy tension of tragic events
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Dramatic Irony: occurs when the audience knows something that the character on stage is not aware
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Dynamic character: a character who grows emotionally, learns a lesson, or alters his or her behavior
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fiction: a genre that describes something that is fake or did not really happen
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Metaphor: an implied comparison between two different things; indentifying a person or object as the thing to which is being compared
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Metonymy: a figure of speech whereby the name of a thing is substituted for the attribute, which it suggests (ex. The pen (power of literature) is mightier than the sword (force))
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Nemesis: enemy, agent of retribution (the person who punishes)
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non-fiction: a genre that describe something that really happened
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Personification: giving the quality of life to inanimate things
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Poetic Justice: the operation of justice in a play with fair distribution of reward for good deeds and punishment for wrong doings
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protagonist: main character
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Round Character: a character, relatively complex and fully developed
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Simile: an expressed comparison between two different things using 'like' or 'as'
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Situational irony: contrast between what a character expects to happen and what actually happens
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Soliloquy: a single character on stage thinking out loud (a way of letting the audience know what is in the character's mind)
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Static character: a character who is simple with few emotions, and labeled as flat
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The four types of conflict: man vs. man, man vs. world, man vs. self, man vs. nature
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third-person limited: narrator who knows only the thoughts of one character
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third-person omniscient: narrator who knows the thoughts of all the character
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Tragedy: a serious play having an unhappy ending (ex. Romeo and Juliet)
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Tragic Flaw: a character trait that leads one to his/her own downfall or destruction
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verbal irony: when someone says one this but means another