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| A: Exposition, B: Rising Action, C: Climax, D: Falling Action, E: Resolution |
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| gives the background or situation for the story; includes setting and characters |
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| the time and place of a story or play |
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| Person in a story, poem, or play |
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| Event that gets the action of a story going |
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| A series of truoubles that build a story or a play toward a climax; includes conflicts |
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| Struggles or clashes between opposing characters or opposing forces |
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| Conflict that takes place within a characters mind |
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| Conflict where a character struggles with an outside force |
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| Moment of greatest emotional intensity or suspense in a plot; the turning point |
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| Conflict unravels; leads to solving the story's problems |
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| Portion of the story or play in which the problem is solved; comes after the climax |
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| A story in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities |
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| A narrative intended to enforce a useful truth |
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| The systematic spreading of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those people advocating such a doctrine or cause |
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| One who receives the blame |
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| The substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
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| Vantage point from which a writer tells a story |
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| One of the Characters is the narrator telling the story; uses the pronoun "I" |
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| The narrator plays no part in the story and zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character |
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| "All-knowing" person telling the story know everything about the characters and their problems |
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| Main character or hero in fiction or drama |
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| The character or force that blocks the protagonist |
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| Central idea of a work of literature; statement or lesson about life |
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| Language that appeals to the senses |
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| The feeling a reader is supposed to get from a piece of literature |
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| Person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well |
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| Contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality |
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| Occurs when the audience or the reader knows something important that a character does not know |
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| Occurs when there is a contrast between what would seem appropriate and what really happens or when there is a contradiction between what we expect to happen and what really does take place |
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| A write or speaker says one thing but means something completely different |
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| The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in a plot |
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| Type of writing that ridicules something - a person, a group of people, humanity at large, an attitude or failing, a social institution - in order to reveal a weakness |
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| Uncertainty or anxiety the reader feels about what is going to happen next in the story |
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| A character that does not change much in the course of the play |
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| A character that changes significantly as a result of the story's events |
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| The process of revealing the personality of a character in a story through the works, thoughts, and actions |
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| Words that are spoken by a character in a play to the audience or to another charcater but that are not supposed to be overheard by the others onstage |
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| An unusually long speech in which a character who is onstage alone expresses his/her thoughts aloud |
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| Play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings |
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| Comic scene or event that breaks up a serious play or narrative |
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| Fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one several rhyme schemes |
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| Line of poetry that contains five iambs |
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Who says this quote? Who is it being spoken too? What does this quote mean?:
"...my mind misgives/ Some consequence yet hanging in the stars/ Shall bitterly begin his fearful date/ With this night's revels and expire the term/ Of a despised life, closed in my breast/ By some vile forfeit of untimely death." |
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| Romeo; Mercutio and Benvolio; My mind tells me something bad will happen, and tonight I will begin my scary fate, and tonight it will reveal to me my fate, of the terrible lose that is in my heart, with an untimely death. |
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Who says this quote? Who is it spoken to? What is this quote about?:
"My only love, sprung from my only hate!/ Too early seen unknown and known too late!/ Prodigious birth of love it is to me/ That I must love a loathed enemy." |
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Juliet; Nurse and herself; I love the enemy, but I fell in love before knowing who he was! Why, cause of love, did you give me love, to the enemy of my family. |
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Who says this quote? Who is it spoken to? What is this quote about?:
"What's a Montague? It is not hand, nor foot/ Nor arm, nor face.../ what's in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet." |
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Juliet; herself; What is a Montague? It does not define someone at all. What is in a name? If something so beautiful was given another name it would have been just as beautiful |
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"A plague on both your houses!" |
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| Mercutio; to Tybalt and Romeo; There is a curse coming to both houses: Montague and Capulet. |
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"O, I am fortune's fool!" |
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| Romeo; himself and Benvolio; O, Fate has made a fool of me! |
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Who says this quote? Who is this quote spoken to? What is this quote about?
"What if it be poison which the friar/ Subtly hath ministered to have me dead,/ Lest in this marriage he should be dishonored/ Because he married me before to Romeo?" |
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| Juliet; herself; What if the potion Friar gave me is poison? That he wants me dead. For because he married us he is dishonored, so he must kill me. |
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Who says this quote? Who is this quote spoken to? What is this quote about?:
"For never was there a story of more woe/ Than this of Juliet and her Romeo." |
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| Prince Escalus; Everyone in attendance; There has never been a more tragic story than of Juliet and her Romeo. |
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