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Antigone
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English
11th Grade
11/01/2012

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tragedy
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drama that recounts the downfall of a dignified, superior character who is involved in historically or socially significant events.
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tragedy greek style
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tragedy shows what happens when people disobeyed the laws of the gods.
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tragic hero
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the tragic hero is a noble,superior character that has a tragic flaw that leads to his/her dowmfall.twists of fate play a hand in the character's destruction.
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exposition
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gives info a bout the chacaters before tha action of the play start.
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catasstrophe
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solve conflict,demonstrates tragic failure and involves death oh hero is the single action toward which ENTER play BUILDS.
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Nature of tragedy
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the fall is caused in part by some error of the protagonist.
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chorus and choragus
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chorus is a group of 15 that commented on the action of the play.choragus was the leader of the chorus that participated in the dialogus.
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drama
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drama is a kind pf literature that is written to be performed by actors of an audience.
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stage direction
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are a play rights's written instruction a bout how actors should move and behave.
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scenes
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a section in a play in which all of the events occur in one place at one time.
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monologue
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a speech in which a character speaks to a silent or absent listener in a moment of deep emotions.
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aside
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a character make a brief remaker, either to the audience or to another character, that other on sate do not hear.
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olialogue
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one way is through dialogue, or conversation between two or more character.
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monologue
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a long speech made by one character often, the stage direction indicates wether the character delivering the monologue is alone or separated from others on the stage.
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soliloquy
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during a monologue, a characters in a drama speaks without interruption.
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