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1
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Where Born

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Stanford-On-Avon, England

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2
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Plays written

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37

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3
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Sonnets written

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154

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4
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Who acted for and principal playwright for

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Lord Chamberlains Men

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5
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Playwright

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Person who writes plays

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6
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Where most plays took place + when built

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1566 Global Theater

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7
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3 Types of Plays Written

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Tragedies, Comedies, Histories

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8
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Comedy

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Ends happily

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9
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Tragedy

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Most people die

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10
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Histories

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Based on real life events

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11
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When Romeo and Juliet written

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1595

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12
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What type Romeo and Juliet is

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Tragedy

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13
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Theater description

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No artificial lighting, roofless, is a courtyard surrounded by 3 levels of galleries, wealthy got benches, groundlings stood in pit

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14
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Groundlings

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Poor people who stood in pit to watch plays

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15
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Plays Info

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For everybody, rich people in play spoke in iambic pentameter, poor people in play spoke in prose,

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16
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How crowd interacts

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Throw tomatoes and yell and scream if play is bad

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17
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Stage

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Platform extended into pit

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18
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Dressing + storage rooms

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Above and behind stage

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19
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Second level gallery

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Upper stage

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20
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Trap door

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Where ghosts are at

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21
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Heavens

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Up sides

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22
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Transitions

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No scenery, change in dialogue

23
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Costumes

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Elaborate, many layers of garments

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Props

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Many props

25
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Actors

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Only men and boys, young boys act women parts - voice not change

26
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Blank Verse

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Unrhymed verse

27
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Iambic Pentameter

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10 syllable lines, 5 stressed and 5 unstressed syllables, ba BA, ba Ba, …

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Prose

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Ordinary writing

29
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Exposition

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Introduces setting, characters, basic situation, beginning of plot

30
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Inciting Moment

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Initial incident, sets plot running

31
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Conflict

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Is either Man vs man, himself, society, nature

32
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Crisis

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Protagonist’s situation gets better or worse

33
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Climax

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Turning point, everything starts to unravel

34
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Resolution

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End of central conflict

35
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Denouncement

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Final explanation/ outcome of plot

36
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Shakespearean tragedy

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Character’s,downfall due to fate, character/fatal flaw, or combination of both + lots of carnage

37
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Theme

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Moral of story, central idea

38
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Simile

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Comparison of 2 things using like or as

39
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Metaphor

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Comparison of two things without using like or as

40
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Dramatic Foil

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Character whose purpose is to show off other character

41
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Round character

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Character with many personality traits

42
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Flat characters

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Embody one trait

43
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Static characters

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Don’t change, show no growth, don’t change opinion or character

44
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Dynamic character

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Change usually for better, show growth

45
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Molologue

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One person speaking on stage, more than one character can be present

46
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Soliloquy

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Long speech to express thoughts of character alone on stage

47
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Aside

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Words spoken in undertone, whispered to another character

48
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Pun

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Humorous use of words with more than one meaning

49
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Direct Address

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Words to tell the reader who is being addressed, separated by ,direct address,

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Dramatic irony

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contradiction between what character thinks and what audience/reader knows to be true

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Verbal irony

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Words used to suggest opposite of what is meant

52
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Situational irony

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Event occurs that directly contradicts expectations of characters, reader, or audience

53
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Comedic relief

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The use of comedy within literature that is not comedy but to provide relief from seriousness or sadness

54
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