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| Accent | the emphasis, or stress, given a syllable in pronunciation |
| Connotation | words |
| Chorus | In greek tragedies, a group of people who serve mainly as commentators on the characters and events. Provides interpretation of previous scenes, background info, and advice to characters. |
| Closet drama | a play that is written to be read than performed on stage |
| Colloquial | refers to a place |
| Comedy | A play to hold a mirror up to society to reflect its follies + vices in the hope that they will as a result, be mended |
| Tragedy | "Hubris Pride" A play to teach a lesson |
| Pathos | Instructive suffering |
| Satyr | Mocks tragic form; provides contrast and comic relief |
| Thespis | 1st actor to step from the chorus to act in dialogue; creates dramatic conflict |
| Prologue | presents topic and conflict |
| Parados | Song performed as actors moved onto and stasma(stop all at once) while standing still |
| Allegory | A narratioin or description usually restricted to a single meaning because of its events, actions, character, setting and objects represent specific abstractions or ideas. |
| Alliteration | The repetition of the same consonant sounds in a sequence of words. |
| Allusion | A breif reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature |
| Ambiguity | Allows two or more simultaneous interpretations of a word, phrase, action, or situation, all of which can be supported by the context of the work. |
| Anagram | A word or phrase made from the same letters of another word or phrase. Ex. heart and earth |
| Antihero | A protagonist who has the opposite of most of the traditional attributes of a hero. |
| Archetype | A term used to describe universal symbols that evokes deep and sometimes unconscious responses in a reader |
| Aside | In drama, a speech directed to the audience that supposedly is not audible to the other characters onstage at the time |
| Assonance | The repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words that do not end the same |
| Ballad | A song that tells a story |
| Cacophony | Language that is difficult to pronounce |
| Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter. Found in most Narrative and dramatic poetry. |
| Ceasura | A pause within a line of poetry that contributes to the rhythm of the line. |
| Characterization | The process by which a writer makes that character seem real to the reader. |
| Flat Character | One or two qualities, ideas or traits |
| Stock Character | A character that embodies stereotypes |
