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AP Drama Lit Terms

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Allusion   show
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show A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply.  
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Antagonist   show
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Protagonist   show
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Sililoquy   show
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Fantasy   show
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show A minor character whose situation or actions parallel those of a major character, and thus by contrast sets off or illuminates the major character.  
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show The central idea of a literary work.  
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Deus ex Machina   show
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Didactic   show
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Dilemma   show
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show The presentation through dialogue of information about events that occurred before the action of a play, or that occur offstage or between the staged actions; this may also refer to the presentation of information about individual characters backgrounds.  
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Dramatic Conventions   show
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Melodrama   show
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show A type of drama related to comedy but emphasizing improbable situation, violent conflicts, physical action, and course wit over characterization or articulated plot.  
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Drama of the Absurd   show
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show A term used by Aristotle to describe some sort of emotional release experienced by the audience at the end of a successful tragedy.  
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Chorus   show
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show A type of drama, opposed to tragedy, having usually a happy ending, and emphasizing human limitation rather than human greatness.  
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Scornful Comedy   show
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show A type of comedy whose likable and sensible main characters are placed in difficulties from which they are rescued at the end of the play, either attaining their ends or having their good fortunes restored.  
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show A situation containing apparently but not actually incompatible elements.  
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Plot Manipulation   show
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Dramatic Framework   show
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show Drama that attempts, in content and in presentation, to preserve the illusion of actual, every day life.  
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Sarcasm   show
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Satire   show
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show Drama that, in content, presentation, or both, departs markedly form fidelity to the outward appearances of life.  
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Tragedy   show
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