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Unit 2 study guide play Flashcards

1
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play

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engage in activity for enjoyment and recreation rather then a serious or practical purpose

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script

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handwriting as distinct from print

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3
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Playwright

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a person who writes plays

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Metatheatricality

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reflecting comedy and tragedy, at the same time, where the audience can laugh

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5
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Thornton Wilder

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American play writer who wrote our town

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Characterization

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the creation or construction of fictional character

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Comedy

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a movie play, or broadcast program intended to make an audience laugh

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Tragedy

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an even causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as serious accident

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William Gibson

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American speculative fiction writer

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10
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Hellen Keller

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A blind and def women who wrote books for kids

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Annie Sullivan

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A women in the miracle worker helps Hellen with her disability

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12
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ASL

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American Sign language

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The six elements of tragedy

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plot,character,diction,thought
spectacle and song

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William Shakespeare

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Wrote Julius Caesar

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Archetype

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a very typical example of a certain person or thing

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16
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julius ceaser

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A play written by William Shakespeare

17
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The Ides of March

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The 74th day in Roman calendar, corresponding to March 15th

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Soliloquy

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a part of a play involving a soliloquy

19
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genre

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A category of artistic composition

20
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short story

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a story with a fully developed theme but shorter story

21
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symbolism

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something that reassembles something or someone

22
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unreliable narrator

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A portrait of the narrator that is shared between the author and the reader

23
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mood

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the feelings of the story

24
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foreshadowing

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warning or indication

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