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| A short speech meant to be heard by only the audience |
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| A long speech spoken in the presence of other |
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| A long speech that reveals inner thoughts |
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| poor person who paid a penny to see a play |
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| tiers of seating for the rich people |
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| area around a stage where people stood to watch the play |
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| Large printed edition of a Shakespearean play (sheet of paper folded in half) |
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| Small printed edition of a Shakespearean play (sheet of paper folded in quarters) |
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| putting opposites side by side (feather of lead) |
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| repeated vowel sound in a series of words |
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| repeated consonant sound in a series of words |
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| period of history when interest in art, music, etc. was reborn |
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| disease spread by fleas; one reason theaters closed |
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| belief that there was a strict order for things and that violating that order created problems |
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| belief that what happened in an individual's life reflected what was happening in the world |
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| fluids that determined a person's personality (blood, black bile, yellow bile, choler) |
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| Division of an act; small section of a play |
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| Words written to tell the actors what to do; not to be read |
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| play about a real person's life; invented by Shakespeare |
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| leaving the present to tell about something in the past |
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| people with opposite personalities though they are very much alike otherwise |
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| hint at what will happen in the future |
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| opposite from what is expected |
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| readers know something characters do not |
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| opposite happens from what is expected |
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| opposite said from what is expected |
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| early play based on Bible stories |
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| early play with characters named after qualities used to teach a lesson |
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| way of saying something that is not literal, like a simile or metaphor |
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| series of events that make a story |
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| party with lots of singing and dancing, entertainment |
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| comparison not using "like" or "as" |
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| giving human qualities to something not human |
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| unstressed, stressed pattern in poety |
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| iambic pentameter verse that does not rhynme |
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| relating to the Middle Ages |
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| fourteen -line poem written in iambic pentameter |
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| two lines of poetry written together that rhyme |
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| humorous scenes placed before/after very serious ones to relieve the audience from a very serious mood |
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| period when Queen Elizabeth reigned in England |
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