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| in addition; notwithstanding |
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| a character with many personality traits, like a real person |
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| a character that is one-dimensional, embodying only a single trait. In shakespeare's plays, flat characters usually provide comic relief. |
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a character who highlights the traits of another character through contrast.
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| causing great injury or ruin |
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| those who hold to a belief opposed to the established teaching of a church |
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| an unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter |
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lines of five five stressed beats in which every second syllable is stressed.
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| um... I guess the importance of the character? (haha sorry Emiliya, the book doesn't really explain) Important or aristocratic characters usually speak in blank verse. Minor or comic characters often don't speak in verse. |
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| (uh idk why this is a term...) it says something about reading the blank verse in sentences, pausing according to the punctuation and not necessarily at the end of each line to interpret it correctly |
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| the act of pleading on behalf of another |
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| of a sickly, pale-yellowih complexion |
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| one who changed pr is unsteady |
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awkward; clumsy
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| a lengthy speech in which a character -- usually alone on stage -- expresses his or her thoughts to the audience |
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| a brief remark by a character revealing thoughts or feeling to the audience, unheard by other characters |
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| like a soliloquy, is a lengthy speech. However, a monologues is addressed to other characters on stage, not to the audience. |
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references to well-known people, places, or events from myths or literature
Example: Mercutio, in the second Act, insultingly calls Tybalt "Prince of Cats," alluding to the cat names Tybalt in French fables. |
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| restate text in your own words |
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| speech that is vivid, forceful, graceful, and persuasive |
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| speech that is vivid, forceful, graceful, and persuasive |
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a contradiction between what a character thinks or says and what the audience or reader knows to be true
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| a feeling of curiosity or uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work |
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| to make an educated guess about what may happen |
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| small bottle containing medicine or other liquids |
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| long journey, often for religious purposes |
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| giving human characteristics to something nonhuman |
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| two consecutive lines that rhyme |
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| a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. |
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