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| A series of physical and psychological events having unity and significance. |
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| A character or force in opposition to the main character. |
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| A line delivered directly to the audience; presumably unheard by the others onstage |
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| The effect, at the end of a tragedy, of having been cleansed and uplifted by the experience. |
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| The strongest point of emotional tention |
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| An unrealistic device that the audience agrees to accept. |
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| The "untying" - after the Climax - Mystery is revealed |
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| Area of stage closest to audience |
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| Area of stage furthest from audience |
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| The imitation by one or more actors of one or more events, From the Greek word dran, meaning to do, to act, to make. |
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| The irony produced when the audience is aware of something character or characters in the play do not know |
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| Portion of the play normally in Act I, in which the author gives the audience needed information to understand the play |
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| A character who defines certain characteristics in the protagonist by exhibiting opposite traits or the same traits in greater or lesser degree |
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| A statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true. |
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| Suffering experienced by the passive and innocent is pathetic; Suffering experienced by persons who act, struggle, and are in some measure responsible for their suffering is tragic. |
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| From the actors point of view, not the audience |
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| Something - an object, word, character, idea, incident - that stands for something else. |
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| The major idea in a play, but not its subject matter. |
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