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| archtypes | familiar character types that appear over and over again in literature |
| tragedy | a drama in which a series of actions leads to the downfall of the main character, called the tragic hero |
| tragic hero | the main character in a tragedy and has a tragic flaw |
| tragic flaw | an error in judgment or a character defect |
| dramatic irony | results when the audience knows more that one or more of the characters |
| soliloquy | a speech given by a character alone on stage, used to reveal his or her private thoughts and feelings |
| aside | a character's remark, either to the audience or to another character, that no one else on stage is supposed to hear |
| repetition | the use of words and phrases more than once to emphasize ideas |
| parallelism | the repetition of grammatical structures to express ideas that are related or of equal importance |
| rhetorical questions | the use of questions that require no answer to make the speaker's rightness seem self-evident |
| castastrophe | a disastrous final outcome |
| blank verse | unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter |
| verse drama | Shakespeare's plays are written in this where most of the dialogue is written in metrical patterns of poetry |
| iambic pentameter | a pattern of rhythm that has five unstressed syllables, each followed by a stressed syllable |
| rhetorical devices | tools used for emphasis and persuasion |
