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Literature-Notes Chapter 14

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Catharsis is defined as which of the following?   A release of the emotions of pity and fear  
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Suspension of disbelief is defined as which of the following?   The audience’s willingness to react to events on stage as if they were real  
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A character whose primary function in a play is to present a contrast to the protagonist is:   A foil  
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Which of the following are the two main methods of characterization in drama?   Dialogue and action  
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Which is the correct order for the parts of a plot?   Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, dénouement  
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Antagonist   The character directy opposed to the protagonist. a rival, opponent, or enemy of the protagonist  
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Antihero   a protagonist of a modern play or novel who has the converse of most of the traditional attributes of the hero  
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Aside   a dramatic convention by which an actor directly addresses the audience but is not supposed to be heard by the other actors on the stage  
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Act   a major division of a drama. the major parts of ancient Greek plays distinguised by the appearance of the chorus, generally fell, as Aristotle implies into five parts  
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Blocking    
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Characterization   the creation of imaginary persons so that they seem lifelike  
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Climax   a rhetorical term for a rising order of importance in the ideas expressed  
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Conflict   the struggle that grows out of the interplay of two opposing forces. it provides interest, suspense, and tension  
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Catharsis   as being "through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions' but he does not explain what "proper purgation" means. In his time it had both a medical and a religious signification.  
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Deus ex Machina   the employmentof some unexpected and improbable incident to make things turn out right  
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Denounement   Literally, "unknotting." the final unraveling of a plot  
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Exposition   one of the four chief types of composition, the others being argumentation, description, and narration.  
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Foil   literally, a "leaf" of bright metal placed under a jewel to increase its brilliance  
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Hero   the central character in a work. the character who is the focus of interest.  
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Itamartia    
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Motivation   the reasons, justifications, and explanations for the action of a character. it results from combination of the character's moral nature with the circumstances in which the charater is placed  
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Monolgue   a composition giving the discourse of one speaker  
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Foreshadowing   the presentation of material in a work in such a way that later events are prepared for it can result from the establishment of a mood or atmosphere  
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Falling Action   the second half or resolution of a dramatic plot. it follows the climax, beginning often with a tragic force, exhibits the failing fortunes of the hero and the successful efforts of the counterplayers, and culminates in the catastrophe.  
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Protagonist   the chief character in work. the word was origianlly applied to the "first" actor in early Greek drama.  
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Pantomime   in its broad sense the term means silent action; the form of drmatic activity in which silent motion, gesture, expression, and costume express emotional states or narrative situations  
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Rising Action   a foot in which the last syllable is accented; thusiamb and the anapest, in English the  
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Reversal   the change in fortune for a protagonist  
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Stock Character   conventional character types  
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Soliloquy   a speech delivered while the speaker is alone, calculated to inform the audience of what is passing in the character's mind  
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Suspense   anticipation as to the outcome of events, particularly as they affect a character for whom one has sympathy; it is a major device for securing and maintaining interest.  
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Scene   the division of an act into scenes is somewhat less systematic than the division of the play itself into acts, for there is incomplete agreement about what constitutes a scene  
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Suspension of disbelief   the willingness to withhold questions about truth, accuracy, or probablility in a work  
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