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Greek Tragedy

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the protagonist falls to disaster through the combination of falling in which he or she cannot deal

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tragic protagonist

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Despite a protagonist doing good deeds, they get defeated

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antagonist

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The main bad person

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extended metaphor

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a metaphor that extends over the course of paragraphs, stanzas of prose or poetry and multiple lines.

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soliloquy

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an act of saying the actors thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardkess of any hearers

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aside

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to one side, out of the way

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hubris

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self-confidence

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hamartia

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a flaw leading to the a loss or downfall of a tragic hero or heroine

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catharsis

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process or releasing, and providing relief from, represssed emotions

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dramatic irony

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when the audience knows something that the characters don’t

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monologue

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a long line or speech a character says in a play or film

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unrequited love

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it is when a person wants unconditional live from another.

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courtly love

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it is a tradition in western europen writing between 12th and 14th centuries, love between knight and a marries lady

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Volatile

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Sutiation changes unpredicually

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emotional

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sad and happy

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impetuous

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doing something quickly without care

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machismo

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masculine pride

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antithesis

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a person or thing that is opposite to something else

Eg romeo and juiliet

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iambic pentameter

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A rhythm that had beat. Eg de dum de dum de dum
Eg Two households, both alike in dignity.

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sonnet

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a poem with 14 lines and a formal rhyme scheme

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shared lines

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Two or more characters that share a line in an iambic verse

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rhyming couplets

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Two lines in an iambic pentameter that end in teh same sound or rhythme

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Protagonist

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The good person in a play or film or book etc

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Prose

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speech used by people in Shakespearean drama

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Verse

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lines of a play that follow a specific pattern of stressed and unstressd syllables

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Fate

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the power that is supported to settle ahead of time of how things will happen

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Free will

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to lay bare the souls of characters

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Honour

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High respect

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Society

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a community

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Patriarchy

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when men to over society and excluding women

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Primogeniture

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a system of which the oldest sons inherit their fathers wealth and land and other things

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Feud

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a long-standing fight

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