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Question 1

Someone who is nobly born in who may have a great influence in their society. Has one or more fatal character flaw that leads to his or her own downfall

Answer 1

Tragic hero

Question 2

A humerus seen, incident, or speech that reveals the overall emotional intensity. Helps the audience absorb the previous plot events and prepare for upcoming events

Answer 2

Comic relief

Question 3

Character whose personality or attitudes are in sharp contrast to those of another character in the same work

Answer 3

Foil

Question 4

Devices that theater audiences except as a realistic even though they don’t reflect reality

Answer 4

Dramatic conventions

Question 5

A speech a character gives when he or she is alone on stage to reveal the characters thoughts

Answer 5

Soliloquy

Question 6

Hey characters thoughts exposed to the audience without other characters knowing

Answer 6

Aside

Question 7

A form of poetry that uses unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter

Answer 7

Blank verse

Question 8

Drama that ends in catastrophe for the main character

Answer 8

Tragedy