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| a character who is nearly opposite of another character |
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| a division of an act into smaller parts |
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| a division within a play, much like chapters of a novel. |
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| a line of poetry that contains 5 iambs of two syllables each |
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| a list of characters presented before the action begins |
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| a long speech spoken by a character to himself, another character, or audience |
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| a protagonist with a fatal flaw which eventually leaders to his demise |
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| a serious work of drama in which the hero suffers catastrophe |
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| a work of literature designed to be performed in front of an audience |
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| conversation between two or more characters |
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| italicized comments that identify parts of the setting |
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| lines that are spoken by a character directly to the audience |
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| thoughts spoken out loud by a character when they are alone |
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| when the audience or reader knows something that the characters did not know |
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| most of shakespeare's plays were written in this form, which is very close to normal speech rhythms and patterns. |
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| phrases or words that which have double meanings |
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| language which works to evoke images into your mind |
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| a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is replaced by another |
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| a play on words that either sound alike or have multiple meanings |
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| two rhyming lines at the end of a speech, signaling that a character is leaving the stage or that the scene is ending |
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| a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as |
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