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| drama that recounts the fall of an individual demonstrating human effort |
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| a hero who suffers from a tragic flaw that eventually causes his downfall |
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| arrogant disregard for the right of others |
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| that point at which a dramatic character experiences increased self-knowledge and understanding |
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| the instant when there is a change by which the action veers around to its opposite |
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| something causing misery or death |
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| subsequent elimination of pity, sympathy, fear and other strong emotions |
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| device for arguing; line of verse dialogue that alternates b/w 2 characters |
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| sudden realization or comprehension of the meaning of something |
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| part of play before the 1st choral ode |
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| parts in mainly the middle of the play |
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| scene that follows the last choral ode of the play |
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| one of the 3 divisions of a choral ode; means "turn" |
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| section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe |
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| a story that has a deeper or more general meaning in addition to its surface meaning |
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| a brief reference to a person event or place, real or ficticious, or tho a work of art |
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| the use of bare expressions, likely to be ignored or misunderstood by a hearer or reader because of bluntness |
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| the act of attributing human forms or qualities to an entities which are not human mostly gods and goddesses |
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| opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction |
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| a sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group |
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| the repitition of a word or phrase |
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| repetition of the same sound in words close to each other |
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| exaggeration for emphasis or for rhetorical effect |
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| a brief saying embodyig a moral a concise statement of a principle or precept given` |
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| usage of any object or situation as it was originally made |
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| type of rhetoric in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first |
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| an implied meaning of a word |
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| repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels |
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| the literal meaning of a word, the dictionary meaning |
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| style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words |
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| a word which makes the reader see the object described in a clearer or sharper light |
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| action that interrupts to show an event that happened at an earlier time |
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| a character that contrasts second character that highlights certain qualities of that first character |
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| changing the usual order of words |
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| when one theme or idea or person is paralleled to another |
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| substitution a word for another word closely associated with it |
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| a recurrent thematic element |
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| the emotional attitude the author takes towards his subject |
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| the attribution of human traits to nature or inanimate objects |
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| a figure of speech which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words or phrases for rhetorical effect |
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| a literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of the subject of work |
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| when one uses a part to represent the whole |
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| the series of related events that make up a story or drama |
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| A struggle of some kind between opposing characters or groups of people;may be internal or external |
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| the principal or central character in a story; main character |
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| any force that is in conflict with the protagonist |
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| background info in the beginning |
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| the circumstance that causes a conflict to exist |
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| a stage of narrative or dramatic structure in which the major conflicts are brought out |
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| the high point of conflict and tension preceding the resolution of a story or drama |
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| the final stage of plot development in which the work is completed |
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| a character who undergoes adaptation, change or growth |
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| a character who undergoes no change |
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| a character who is not individualized, but rather useful and structural, static, and unchanging |
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| a character who profits from experience and undergoes a change or development |
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| the central idea or insight revealed by a work of literature |
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| the vantage point from which a writer tells a story |
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| the narrator plays no part in the story but can tell us what all the characters are thinking and feeling as well as what is happening in other places |
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| first person point of view |
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| the narrator is a character in the story |
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| limited omniscient point of view |
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| the narrator plays no part in the story, but instead focuses on the thoughts and feelings of one character who is usually the protagonist |
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| objective/dramatic point of view |
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| third person narration reporting speech and action, but rigorously excluding commentary on the actions and thoughts of the characters |
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| the speaker says one thing and means the exact opposite |
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| what actually happens is the opposite of what is expected or appropriate |
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| when the reader or the audience knows something important that a character does no know |
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| a method of narration in which past events are introduced into a present action |
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| the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot |
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| the manipulation of language and the placement of words in the service of content |
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| the attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject or a character |
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| the emotional aura invoked by a work |
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| a specific word, idea, or object that may stand for ideas, values, persons, or ways of life |
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| fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form |
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| unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| a harsh, discordant, unpleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds |
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| the basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word |
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| a smooth, pleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds |
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| a narrative poem designed to be sung |
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| verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line |
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| style of art and literature stressing the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery |
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| poetry using artificiall eloquent language |
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| poetry aimed primarily at stimulating the emotions rather than communicating expericence honestly and freshly |
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| the internal organization of a poem's content |
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| saying less than one means |
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| The use of a word or phrase to replace another with one that is considered less offensive or less vulgar than the word or phrase it replaces |
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| a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples |
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| a change or movement in a piece resulting from an epiphany, realization, or insight gained by the speaker, a character, or the reader |
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| disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking |
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| a character, action, or situation that is a prototype or pattern of human life generally |
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