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| 9666231632 | Act | A Major Division in the action of the play, comprising one or more scenes | 0 | |
| 9666236045 | Catastrophe | Play and Fiction- The final resolution or denouement of the plot in a tragedy, usually involving the death of the protagonist.- Death of Hamlet | 1 | |
| 9666243450 | Catharsis | Play and Fiction-The effect of purgation or purification achieved by tragic drama or protagonist guilt purged | 2 | |
| 9666250240 | Flat Character | A character whose character is summed up in one or two traits | 3 | |
| 9666252886 | Round Character | A character whose character is complex and many sided | 4 | |
| 9666257256 | Stock Character | A stereotyped character | 5 | |
| 9666259588 | Dynamic Character | Is changed by the actions in which he or she is involved | 6 | |
| 9666261215 | Static Character | Remains unchanged or little changed throughout the story | 7 | |
| 9666266925 | Crisis | Play and Fiction- The outcome of the remaining action depends and which ultimetly precipates the catastrophe or denouement | 8 | |
| 9666276180 | Epilogue | P and F- A concluding section of any written work during which characters subsequent fates are briefly outlined | 9 | |
| 9666279936 | Exposition | P&F- that sets the stage for the drama to follow: it introduces the theme, setting, characters, and circumstances at the story's beginnings. | 10 | |
| 9666284954 | Falling action | The segment of the plot that comes between the climax and the conclusion | 11 | |
| 9666289756 | Hamartia | P&F-The false step that leads the protagonist in a tragedy to his or her downfall | 12 | |
| 9666308877 | Hubris | P&F- In its ancient Greek context, it typically describes behavior that defies the norms of behavior or challenges the gods, and which in turn brings about the downfall, or nemesis, of the perpetrator | 13 | |
| 9666312658 | In Media res | In the middle of things- the technique of beginning a story in the middle of action | 14 | |
| 9666319335 | Reliable, Unreliable, Naiive, Intrusive | Types of Narrators | 15 | |
| 9762284809 | Tragedy | Which the protagonist, a person of unusual moral or intellectual stature or outstanding abilities, suffers a fall in fortune due to some error of judgment or flaw in his or her nature. | 16 | |
| 9762311312 | Aestheticism | Reverence for beauty; movement that held beautiful form is to be valued more than instructive content | 17 | |
| 9762323394 | Ambiguity | A word, phrase or attitude that has double meanings | 18 | |
| 9762331852 | Baroque | A grand and exuberantly ornamental style | 19 | |
| 9762341606 | Classicism | An adherence to the principals of Greek and Roman literature. | 20 | |
| 9762350002 | Colloquialisms | Words or phrases that are used in everyday conversation or informal writing which re usually considered inappropriate for a formal essay | 21 | |
| 9762375548 | Connotation | The range of further associations that a word or phrase suggests in addition to its straightforward dictionary meaning | 22 | |
| 9762408254 | Convention | A device of style or subject matter so often used that it becomes a recognized means of expression. | 23 | |
| 9762417834 | Denotation | The precise, literal meaning of a word, without emotional associations or overtones | 24 | |
| 9762433921 | Determinism | Philosophy that suggest people's actions and all other events are determined by forces over which human beings have no control. | 25 | |
| 9762450945 | Diatribe | Violently bitter verbal attack | 26 | |
| 9762458501 | Digression | A portion of a written work that interrupts or pauses the development of the theme or plot | 27 | |
| 9762473301 | Epigraph | The use of a quotation at the beginning of a work that hints at its theme | 28 | |
| 9762485314 | Existentialism | A philosophical movement that focuses on the individual human being's experience of, recognition of, and triumph over the meaninglessness of existence. | 29 | |
| 9762502709 | Expressionism | Present life not as it appears on the surface, but as it is passionately felt to be by an author or character. | 30 | |
| 9762519481 | Hedonism | The pursuit of pleasure above all else | 31 | |
| 9762534985 | Invective | Direct denunciation or name-calling | 32 | |
| 9762561277 | Local color | The use of physical setting, dialect, customs and attitudes that typify a particular design | 33 | |
| 9762570793 | Malapropism | The comic substitution of one word for another similar in sound, but different in meaning. Functions to make characters look ignorant or amusingly uneducated. | 34 | |
| 9762596728 | Pantheism | The identification of God with the universe | 35 | |
| 9762603196 | Primitivism | The belief that nature provides a truer and more healthful model than culture; the noble savage. | 36 | |
| 9762617332 | Pseudonym | Pen name, nom de plume, alias; a fictitious name assumed by a writer who wished to remain anonymous or who chooses not to use her/his real name professionally. | 37 | |
| 9762636940 | Naturalism | Style of writing that rejects idealized portrayals of life and attempts complete accuracy, disinterested objectivity, and frankness in depicting life as a brutal struggle for survival. | 38 |
