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antigone
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English
11th Grade
11/01/2012

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Drama
Definition
Identify the element of drama. recognize monologue and dialogue. understand the purpose of stage directions.
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plot
Definition
A plot is the series of related events that make up a story.exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
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conflict
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The conflict is a straggle between a character and opposing characters or opposing forces.
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setting
Definition
Time and place in which a story occurs.
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character
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A person ( or an animal) in a literary work. a story or play can have many characters or just a few.
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dialogue
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The words characters speak. Although any kind of story can have dialogue, it is central to drama because the audience follows the events by watching what characters say to do.
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element of fiction describe.
Definition
Setting, conflict, dialogue
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stage directions
Definition
A playwright's written instructions about 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 of absent listener in a moment of deep emotion.
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soliloquy
Definition
Character alone on stage, thinking or feeling.
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aside
Definition
Makes a brief remark, either to the audience or to another character that others on stage do not hear.
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exposition
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Characters and setting, conflict.
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rising action
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Shows how the conflict becomes more complicated.
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climax
Definition
Most emotional or suspenseful moment.
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falling action
Definition
Suspense reveals the outcome of the story's climax, resolution.
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on-stage speech
Definition
soliloquy, dialogue
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tragedy
Definition
drama that recounts the downfall of s Dignified. superior character who is involved in historically or socially significant events.
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tragedy greck-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 downfall. twists of fate play a hand in the character's destruction.
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catastrophe
Definition
Solve conflict demonstrates tragic failure and involves death of hero.
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nature of tragedy
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The fall is caused in part by some error of the protagonist (hero).
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chorus and choragus
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chorus is a group of 15 that commented On the actions of the play. Choragus was the leader of the chorus that participated in the dialogue.
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