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This is a story intended to be performed in front of an audience.
What is a drama
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the chief character in a work

WHo is Protagonist?

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The words or conversations spoken by characters to each other. Much of what you learn about the characters, setting, and events are revealed in this conversation.

What is dialogue?

100

introductory material that gives the background of the play

What is Exposition?

100

THe point in the play during which the tragic hero experiences a kind of self-understanding; the discovery or recognition that leads to the peripeteia or reversal

What is Anagnorisis/recognition:?

200
This is the abbreviation of the word "property" and is any object that is used in a play to enhance the setting
What are props?
200

conventional character types whom the audience recognizes immediately. Examples: the country bumpkin, the shrewish wife, the braggart soldier

Who is a Stock character:

200
This is a long uninterrupted speech that is spoken by a single character which reveals his/her thoughts and feelings
What is a monologue?
200

the turning point in the action, the crisis at which the rising action turns and becomes the falling action

What is Climax of action

200

 a purgation of emotions. According to Aristotle, the end of tragedy is the purgation of emotions through pity and terror.

What is Catharsis:

300
A dramatic work that presents the downfall of a character due to bad judgement and leads to a disastrous conclusion usually death
What is a tragedy?
300

the character who opposes the protagonist.

WHo is an Antagonist:

300
This is where the actor breaks the "fourth wall" and interacts with the audience. The other actors on the stage have no knowledge of this.
What is an aside?
300

exhibits the failing fortunes of the hero  

What is Falling action or resolution

300

 overweening pride or insolence that results in the misfortune of the protagonist of a tragedy. Hubris leads the protagonist to break a moral law, attempt vainly to transcend normal limitations, or ignore a divine warning with calamitous results.

What is Hubris?

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The drama element portrayed here: [Wyona is sitting on the couch. She sees Paul and jumps to her feet.] Wyona. [Angrily.] What do you want?
What are stage directions?
400

any character in a play who through contrast underscores the distinctive characteristics of another, particularly the protagonist.

Who is the Foil?

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This is a solitary speech in which the character in a play is speaking to themselves
What is soliloquy?
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the unraveling of the plot of the play

What is Denouement:

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reversal of fortune for the protagonist--from failure to success or success to failure.

What is Peripeteia/reversal:

500

A struggle that a character has. This can be either internal or external

What is conflict?

500

According to Aristotle, the protagonist or hero of a tragedy must be brought from happiness to misery and should be a person who is better than ordinary people--a king, for example. In "Tragedy and the Common Man," Arthur Miller argues that the ordinary man can also be a tragic hero.

Who is a Tragic hero?

500

 limiting the time, place, and action of a play to a single spot and a single action over the period of 24 hours.

What are the Unities? (Unity of time, place, and action)

500

 the part of a plot in which the entanglement caused by the conflict of opposing forces is developed.

What is Complications?

500

 the words or acts of a character may carry a meaning unperceived by the character but understood by the audience. The irony resides in the contrast between the meaning intended by the speaker and the different significance seen by others.

What is Dramatic irony?

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