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| a kind of literature that is written to be performed by actors for an audience. |
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| the series of events that make up the story. |
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| a struggle or clash in the story or play. |
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| the time and place in which a story occurs. |
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| a person (or an animal) in a literary work. |
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| the words characters speak. |
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| a playwright's written instructions about how actors should move and behave. |
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| a section in a play in which all the events occur in one place at one time. |
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| a speech in which a character speaks to a silent listener in a moment of deep emotion. |
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| a speech by a character alone on stage, whose words reveal what he or she is thinking of deep emotion. |
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| a character makes a brief remark, either to the audience or to another character,that others on stage do not hear. |
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| introduces the characters and setting. |
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| builds suspense and shows how the conflict becomes move complicated. |
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| its most emotional or suspenseful moment. |
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| eases the suspense and reveals the out come of the story's climax. |
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| reveals the final outcome and ties up loose ends. |
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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 shows what happens when people disobeyed the laws of the gods.
-the intent of the Greek tragedy was to show:
-terrible things befell the proud or
-those who crossed the gods. |
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-a noble, superior character that has a tragic flaw that leads to his/her downfall.Twists of fate play a hand in the character's destruction
-Possesses a defeat,ot Tragid flaw, that brings about his/her fall |
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| gives info about the character BEFORE the action of the play starts. |
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| characters are introduced, and conflict is established |
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-the main character gains some knowledge about himself, others, ot events in the play
-the action now changes direction due to this knowledge and awareness. |
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