| A | B |
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| Tragedy | depicts serious important events in which the main characters come to an unhappy end |
| Comedy | common character rises up and meets good fortune |
| History | “based on prominent |
| Tragic Hero | The main character of a tragedy such as Romeo |
| Tragic Flaw | Characteristics of tragic hero that lead to his downfall |
| Theme | central idea of a literary work that can usually be stated in a sentence. Ex: Love is stronger than hatred |
| Stage Directions | “Instruct characters on what to do while they recite dialogue |
| Aside | Dialogue spoken by a character to someone onstage or the audience that another character onstage is not supposed to hear |
| Monologue | Long speech by one character to one or more on stage |
| Soliloquy | A character alone on stage delivers private thoughts or feelings to the audience |
| Exposition | “Establishes the setting |
| Rising Action | “Set off by initial incident - the first major event that sets the plot in motion” |
| Falling Action | Events wind down toward resolution or denouement |
| Dénouement | The end of a work of fiction in which conflicts are resolved one way or the other |
| Dramatic Irony | Occurs when the audience knows something the characters onstage do not know |
| Dramatic Foil | Character who is used as a contrast to another character |
| Oxymoron | two words used together that contradict each other such as icy hot or jumbo shrimp |
| Paradox | statement or situation that seems to be a contradiction but reveals a truth |
| Double Entendre | “French for "double meaning" when a word or phrase has a double meaning |
| Pun | Play on the multiple meaning of a word |
| Conceit | an extended metaphor |
| Foreshadowing“Clues to hint to events that will occur later | used to build suspense” |
