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| Catharsis | 1.The process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions. |
| Pathos | A quality that evokes pity or sadness |
| Mean level of utterance | a measure of linguistic productivity |
| Anagnorisis | a moment in a play or other work when a character makes a critical discovery |
| Peripeteia | A sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstances |
| Double entendre | 1.A word or phrase open to two interpretations, one of which is usually risqué or indecent. |
| Protagonist | 1.The leading character or a major character in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text |
| Antagonist | 1.A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary |
| Denouement | 1.The final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are resolved. |
| Patriarchal order | is a social system in which the male is the primary authority figure |
| Goyim | A Jewish name for a non-Jew |
| Anti-semitism | the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people. |
| Mode of address | in narrative studies, the way in which media texts talk to an audience |
| W.A.S.P | White Anglo-Saxon Protestant |
| Tableau | A group of models or motionless figures representing a scene from a story or from history; a tableau vivant. |
| Motif | 2.A distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition |
| Hysterical Paralysis | Conversion disorder is a condition where patients present with neurological symptoms such as numbness, blindness, paralysis, or fits |
| Tragic Hero | A tragic hero is the main character in a tragedy. The idea that this be a balance of crime and punishment is incorrectly ascribed to |
| Kristallnacht | (literally "Crystal Night") or The Night of Broken Glass was an anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany |
| Promiscuous | Having many sexual relationships |
