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Any force in a story that is in conflict with the protagonist

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Antagonist

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A brief speech in which a charcter turns from the person being addressed t speak directley to the audience

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Aside

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A term used by aristotle to describe some sort of emotional release experienced by the audience at the end of a successful tragedy

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Catharsis

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any of the persons involved in a story or play

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Character

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A group of unnamed characters who offer comments on the action of the play and prayers to gods or goddesses and who give insight into the theme or moral to the play

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Chorus

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the turning point or high point in a plot

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climax

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a type of drama opposed to tragedy

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comedy

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that portion of a plot that reveals the final outcome of its conflicts or the solution of its mysteries

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Denouement

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The resolution of a plot by use of a highly improbable hance or oincidence

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Deus ex machina

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any dramatic device which, through it departs form reality, is implicitly accepted by author and audience as a means of representing reality

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Dramatic convention

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The situation, wheather actual or fictional, realistic or fanciful, in chich an author places his or her characters in order to express the theme

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Dramatic Framework

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The presentation of character or of emotion through the speech or action of characters rather than through exposition, analysis, or description by the author.

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Dramatization

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The segment of the plot that comes between the climax and the conclusion.

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Falling Action

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A type of drama related to comedy but emphasizing improbable situations, violent conflicts, phusical action, and coarse witt

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Farce

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The error, frailty, mistaken judgment, or misstep through which the fortunes of the hero of a tragedy are reversed.

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Hamartia

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An ending in chich the central problem or conflict is left unresolved.

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indeterminate Ending

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The method of characterization in which the author shows the audience a character in action, compelling the audience to infer what the character is like from what is said or done by the character.

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Indirect presentation of character

18
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The juxtaposition of the way reality is perceived and the way reality is

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Irony

19
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a type of drama related to tragedy but featuring sensational incidens, emphasizing plot at the expense of characterization,, relyng on cruder conflicts

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Melodrama

20
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In drama, a character, found in some plays, who, speaking directly to the audience, introduces the action and provides a string of commentary between the dramatic scenes.

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Narator

21
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A maker or writer of plays.

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Playwright

22
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The central character in a story.

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Protagonist

23
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The development of plot in a story that precedes and leads up to the climax.

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Rising Action

24
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The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.

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Setting

25
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A speech in which a character, alone on-the-stage, addresses himself or herself; a soliloquy is “thinking out loud,” a dramatic means of letting an audience know a character’s thoughts and feelings.

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Soliloquy

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A type of drama, allied to comedy and radically nonrealistic in both content and presentation, that emphasizes the absurdity, emptiness, or meaninglessness of life.

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Theater of the Absurd (or Drama of the Absurd)

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The central idea of a literary work.

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Theme

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A type of drama, opposed to comedy, which depicts the causally related events that lead to the downfall and suffering of the protagonist, a person of unusual moral or intelletual stature or outstanding abilities.

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Tragedy

29
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Ghost of Hamlet

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the former King of Denmark and Hamlet’s father

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Claudius

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Present King of Denmark, the former King’s brother, Hamlet’s uncle

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Gertrude

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Queen of Denmark, widow of the former King and now wife of Claudius, Hamlet’s mother

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Hamlet

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Prince of Denmark, son of the late King and Gertrude

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Polonius

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councilor to the King

34
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Laertes

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son of Polonius

35
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Ophelia

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daughter of Polonius, sister to Laertes, romantically involved with Hamlet

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Reynaldo

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servant to Polonius

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Horatio

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Hamlet’s friend and fellow student

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Fortinbras

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Prince of Norway

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

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members of the Danish court

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