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Tragedy

Tragedy. Literary work dealing with very serious and important themes in which a dignified figure meets destruction, usually through some personal flaw or weakness. Tragic Hero. The protagonist in a tragedy; usually suffers a downfall as the result of a tragic flaw. Tragic Flaw.

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Tragedy

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  1. Tragedy • Literary work dealing with very serious and important themes in which a dignified figure meets destruction, usually through some personal flaw or weakness.

  2. Tragic Hero • The protagonist in a tragedy; usually suffers a downfall as the result of a tragic flaw.

  3. Tragic Flaw • Serious character weakness that leads to that character’s downfall.

  4. Catharsis • An emotional cleansing

  5. Blank Verse • Duplicates the natural rhythm speech. • Unrhymed iambic pentameter • Unstressed/stressed syllables--5 in a line

  6. Iambic Pentameter • A series of unstressed/stressed syllables with 5 groups of these in a line • u/u/u/u/u/

  7. Dramatic Conventions • Agreements between the actors and the audience to pretend (fade outs).

  8. Soliloquy • A long speech that reveals a character’s inner thoughts while he is alone on stage.

  9. Aside • A remark to the audience made to be heard by them only and perhaps only one other character on stage.

  10. Monologue • A long speech given by one character.

  11. Pun • Play on words.

  12. Anachronism • Something out of place in time • Example: A cell phone in a play about the 1950s

  13. Plot Plot movement: • The sequence of events that create and then resolve a conflict. Climax (peak tension) or Crisis (dramatic turning point) Falling action (fall of tragic hero) Rising action Resolution or Denouncement (Point at which conflict ends and outcome is made clear) Beginning of story

  14. Allusion • Reference to another person or place in literature. • Example: A reference to Moses in a modern day story.

  15. Shakespearean / Elizabethan Sonnet • 14 line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter • 3 quatrains (4 line stanzas) • Rhyming couplet (last 2 lines) • Rhyme scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGG

  16. Foil • Character who provides contrast to another character.

  17. The Globe Theater

  18. Audience • Nobility • groundlings

  19. Groundlings • Paid 1 cent and stood in the yard to see a play. They were very vocal.

  20. Characteristics • Lighting • Props • Voice • Curtain • Actors • Costumes • Flag

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