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Lit Hist/Periods

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Augustan Age   show
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Cothurni   show
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Deus ex machine   show
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show verse written for the stage from the classical, Renaissance, and neoclassical periods.  
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Epic   show
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In media res   show
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Hero   show
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show situational irony popular during the classical period  
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masks   show
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Orchestra   show
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show timeless  
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Pantomime   show
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Parable   show
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Peripeteia   show
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show Greek comic play  
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Skene   show
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show mid-16th century medieval form of comic drama which relies on stock characters.  
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Picture frame stage   show
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Proscenium arch   show
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Romance   show
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Troubadours   show
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Villanelle   show
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Double plot   show
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Dumb show   show
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Madrigal   show
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Sonnet   show
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Nouvelle   show
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show drama that combines tragedy and comedy, Renaissance  
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show the three formal qualities recommended by Italian Renassance literary critics to unify a plot (action, time and place)  
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show a realistic form of comic drama that flourished in the 17th century (Restoration)  
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show 17th and 18th centuries/1660-1798  
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show ancient Greek and Roman-1066  
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show 9th-15th century /1066-1485  
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show 1485-1660, late 15th-17th century  
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Closet drama   show
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show a genre tha creates terror and suspence, Restoration  
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Box set   show
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show a broad caricature, parody, travesty, or take off of plays, opera, or current events. 19th century  
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show an extreme form of realism, 19th century  
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Realism   show
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show movement to make literature resemble music, 19th century  
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show non traditional performance space that favors no one portion of the audience. 20th century  
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Modern period   show
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show visual poetry where the picture image is made of the words of the poem. 20th century Modern  
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Confessional poetry   show
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show field of study focusing on the social power encoded in texts. 20th century  
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Expressionism   show
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Flexible theater   show
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Metafiction   show
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New Formalism   show
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New Naturalism   show
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show Modernist movement that tries to organize art according to the irrational dictates of the unconciuos mind.  
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show post WWII European genre depictiong the grotesquely comic plight of human beings thrown by accident into the world.  
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Romanticism   show
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show 19th-20th century, 1832-1900  
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