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Hyperbole

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An over exaggeration

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Hubris

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Excessive pride

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Paradox

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Seemingly self contradictory statement that in reality makes sense

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Thesis

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A proposition or statement that is made to be true

Subject of an essay

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Tragic flaw

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A fundamental character weakness such as excessive pride, ambition, or jealousy

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Protagonist

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Main character, not always good

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Antagonist

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Anyone who gets in the way of the protagonist

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Setting

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Time and place

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Theme

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The meaning or central ideas, deeper than subject

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Subject

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What something is about specifically, 1 word

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Genre

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Category

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Points of view

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1st person
2nd person- never used
3rd person limited
3rd person omniscient

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1st person

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Character in the story tells the story
Unreliable narrator
Bias!!

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3rd limited

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Follows 1 character and their thoughts, nothing else

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3rd omniscient

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All knowing, explains a lot, goes into past etc.

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Exposition

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Setting up of the story, background info

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Prose

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Anything that isn’t poetry, normal everyday language

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Allegory

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Story that has a deeper meaning

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Allusion

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A reference to something

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Plot

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Series of related events
Events that make up a story, particularly as they relate to one another in a pattern, in a sequence, through cause and effect, how the reader views the story, or simply by coincidence

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Rising action

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Thickening of the plot

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Climax

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Top point, climax of the plot

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Denouement

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Settling of the plot, things are getting resolved, end of a story

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Static character

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Doesn’t change much throughout the story

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Dynamic character

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Changes significantly throughout the story, different view on life

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Flat character

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1 dimensional, lacks depth

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Round character

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Multidimensional

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Direct character

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Specific facts, author directly gives characteristics, straight up

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Indirect character

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When a characters personality is shown throughout speech and actions

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Irony

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A reversal of expectations

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Dramatic irony

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When we know something that the characters don’t know

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Verbal irony

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When you say one thing but you mean the opposite of what you say

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Sarcasm

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Insincere tone

You can be sarcastic without being ironic

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Pun

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A play on words

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Foreshadowing

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Hinting at what’s to come

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Didactic

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When the author is being very latent about the message that they are trying to get across

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Epiphany

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Absolute change that redirects course of life

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What was a place where people gathered to sing

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Amphitheater

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Who invented 3-4 characters

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Sophocles

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Man from Greece, has a definition of tragedy, must be pity and fear

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Aristotle

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Who invented 2 actors?

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Aeschylus

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Who started modern theatre?

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Thespis

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What 2 things did Thespis do

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Turned hymns into songs that were stories

Invented actors

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Dionysus

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God of wine and fertility

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Type of tragedy defined by Aristotle

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Aristotelian

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To arouse pity and fear in the audience

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Tragedy

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Greek word meaning emotional purging

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Catharsis

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Aristotle’s book about the philosophical literary theories

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The poetics

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Excessive pride

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Hubris

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A fundamental character weakness

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Tragic flaw

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First story in the trilogy about Oedipus earlier life

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Oedipus Rex

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Second book in the trilogy, probably about his later life

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Oedipus at colonus

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Main character in Antigone, kills herself

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Antigone

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Place with an oracle that gives fate of Oedipus

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Delphi

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Animal with body of lion and human head that gave a riddle to Oedipus but killed herself after he got it right

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Sphinx

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Group of singers

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Chorus

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Situational irony

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Ex Fire fighters house burning down

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Socratic irony

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Playing dumb

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When we know something the characters don’t

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Dramatic irony

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Necessities for an Aristotelian tragedy

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Tragic figure is highly renowned and prosperous
Has a tragic flaw
Hero is responsible for own downfall
Comes to recognize his error
Accepts tragic consequences
Is humbled
Enlightened
Punishment exeeds the crime
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Tone

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Attitude toward the subject

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Symbol

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Anything that represents something greater than itself

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Thames

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River running through London

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Alliteration

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the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

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Assonance

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in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence ).

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Cliche

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a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought.

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Conceit

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excessive pride in oneself.

a fanciful expression in writing or speech; an elaborate metaphor.

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Enjambment

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At the end of a line of a poem or sonnet, you continue reading through unless there is punctuation

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Explication

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to make plain or clear; explain; interpret.

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Extended metaphor

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a metaphor introduced and then further developed throughout all or part of a literary work, especially a poem

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Figurative language

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Similes, metaphors, personification, etc

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Foil

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In fiction, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character.

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Free verse

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poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

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Half rhyme

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Something that Shakespeare does, close to a rhyme but not exact

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Image/imagery

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figurative description or illustration

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Implied/indirect metaphor

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a word or phrase that compares two unlike things to more clearly describe them, without mentioning one of the things

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Metaphor

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A comparison using like or as

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Meter

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A pattern of rhythm

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Onomotopoeia

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the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

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Persona

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a social role or a character played by an actor.

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Personification

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the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

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Rhyme

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correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.

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Rhythm

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Alternating stressed and spun stressed syllables, no specific order necessary

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Simile

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A comparison that uses like or as

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Stanza

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an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.

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Stress

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give particular emphasis or importance to (a point, statement, or idea) made in speech or writing.

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Verisimilitude

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the appearance of being true or real.

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Vignette

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a brief evocative description, account, or episode.

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The rose

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One of Shakespeare’s theaters, built in 1587 by Philip henslowe

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The plague

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A deadly disease spread around the time of William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist

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Oedipus

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Killed his father, married his mother

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Chorogus

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The leader of the chorus

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Teiresias

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Blind prophet if Apollo

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Thebes

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An ancient city in Greece

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Antigone (play)

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Tragedy written by Sophocles

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