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Antigone
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English
10th Grade
11/02/2012

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Drama
Definition
is kind of literature that is weitten to be performed by actors for an audience.
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Plot
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is the series of related events that make up a story.
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Conflict
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is a struggle between a characters and opposing characters or opposing forces.
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Setting
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is the time and place in which a story occum.
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Character
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is a person or animal in a literary work.
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Dialogue
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the words characters speak.
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Stage directions
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A play wright'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 emotion.
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Soliloquy
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A special kind of monologue is a soliloque a speech by a character a lone on stage.
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Aside
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in an aside, character makes a brief ramark, either to the audience or to another character that others on stage do not hear.
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Exposition
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the expisition introduces the characters and setting.
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Rising action
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tbuilds suspence and shows how the conflict becomes more complicated.
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Climax
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a play's climax is it most emotional or suspenseful moment.
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Falling action and resolution
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the falling action eases the suspense and reveals the outcome of the story's climax.
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Cotastrophe
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solves conflict, demonsteates tragic failure and involves death of hero. Death of the hero is the single action toward which ENTIRE 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 hero.
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Classical drama
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from athens, Greece.Used in religious celebrations in honors of Dionysus, the GOD of WING AND FERIILITY.
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Tragedy
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Drama that recounts the downfall of a dignified, superior character who is involed in historically or socially significant events.
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Tragedy Greek style
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Tragedy show 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 tha leads to his /her downfall.
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