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| 7016987178 | Act | The main division of a play. Shakespeare's plays consist of five acts. The climax occurs in Act Three. | 0 | |
| 7016987179 | Anastrophe | Inversion of the normal syntactic order of words, for example: To market went she. | 1 | |
| 7016987180 | Apotheosis | Elevating someone to the level of god | 2 | |
| 7016987181 | Aside | A short speech or remark made by an actor to the audience rather than to the characters, who do not hear him or her. | 3 | |
| 7016987182 | Catharsis | from Aristotle's Poetics, the idea that tragedy should "arouse pity and fear in such a way as to accomplish a catharsis of emotions in the audience": refers to an emotional cleansing or feeling of relief | 4 | |
| 7016987183 | Chiasmus | A type of rhetoric in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first. | 5 | |
| 7016987184 | Constative | The use of language to indicate a state of affairs which exists, in contrast to language used 'performatively' - to initiate an action. | 6 | |
| 7016987185 | Drama | A composition in prose or verse for presenting through dialogue and acting. | 7 | |
| 7016987186 | In Medias Res | In literature, a work that begins in the middle of the story. | 8 | |
| 7016987187 | Monologue | An extended speech by one person. | 9 | |
| 7016987188 | Pleonasm | Use of superfluous or redundant words, often enriching the thought. Example: *No one, rich or poor, will be excepted. | 10 | |
| 7016987189 | Portmanteau | Combination of two or more words to create a new word; Example: smog is the combination of smoke and fog; Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky is loaded with portmanteau words. | 11 | |
| 7016987190 | Prolepsis | The anticipation, in adjectives or nouns, of the result of the action of a verb; also, the positioning of a relative clause before its antecedent. | 12 | |
| 7016987191 | Scene | A unit of dramatic action in which a single point is made. | 13 | |
| 7016987192 | Synesis | (=constructio ad sensum): the agreement of words according to logic, and not by the grammatical form; a kind of anacoluthon. | 14 | |
| 7016987193 | Tragedy | "the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself." It incorporates "incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish the catharsis of such emotions." | 15 | |
| 7016987194 | Tragic Hero | has the potential for greatness but is doomed to fail. He is trapped in a situation where he cannot win. He makes some sort of tragic flaw, and this causes his fall from greatness. Even though he is a fallen hero, he still wins a moral victory, and his spirit lives on | 16 |
