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| Tragedy | type of drama or literature that shows the downfall or destruction of a noble or outstanding person |
| Tragic Hero | person who is caught up in a sequence of events that inevitably results in disaster |
| Tragic Flaw | traditionally one who possesses a character weakness |
| Catharsis | purging of the emotions of pity and fear that aroused in the viewer of a tragedy |
| Resolution/Denouncement | the denoucement follows the complications, beginning with an including the moment of perpetuia |
| Symbolism | serving as a symbol of something |
| Motif | a reoccuring element |
| Dramatic Irony | occurs when readers are aware of truths that the characters themselves do not percieve |
| Verbal Irony | use of words to suggest the opposite of their usual means |
| Situational Irony | occurs when an outcome contradicts expectations |
| Greek Chorus | company of actors who comment on the action in the classical greek play |
| Narrative poem | poem that tells a story |
| Character foil | a foil is a character that contrasts with another character |
| Aside | dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience |
| Soliloquy | long speech in a play or in a prose work made by a character who is alone and thus reveals private thoughts and feelings to the audience or reader |
| Blank Verse | unrhymed poetry usually written in imabic pentameter |
| Allusion | reference of a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art |
| Allegory | a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through, concentrate or material forms |
| Vernacular | expressed or written in the native language of a place, as literary works |
| Imagery | the formation of mental images, collectively |
| Canto | one of the main or larger divisions of a long poem |
| Tone | writers attitude toward the reader and toward the subject |
| Point of view | the perspective or vantage point from which a story is told is its point of view. |
| Quest | a heroes dangerous journey in search of something of value. |
| Realism | is the presentation in art of details from actual life. |
| Modernism | describes an international movement in the arts during the early twentieth century. |
| Moral | events in the fable point of a lesson. |
| Drama | is a story written to be performed by actors. |
| Humanism | a system of thought that rejects religious beliefs and centers on humans and their values, capacities, and worth. |
