Terminology Backwards

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The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

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Alliteration

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An expression used to call something to mind without using it explicitly, an indirect or passing reference

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Allusion

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Character(s), institution, or concept that stand in the way of or presents opposition to the protagonist or main character

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Antagonist

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Repetition of vowel sounds or diphthongs to create internal rhyming within phrases

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Assonance

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A group of singers who comment on the main action

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Chorus

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A phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of thought

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Cliché

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Turning point, most intense point of a story

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Climax

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Excessive pride in oneself, (more importantly) a fanciful expression in writing or speech, an elaborate metaphor

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Conceit

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The final part of the plot in which matters are resolved and everything comes together

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Denouement

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Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

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Didactic

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Occurs when the author specifically writes what a character is write, explicit definition, uses adjectives, phrases

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Direct characterization

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When the audience knows something that the characters in the play don’t know

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Dramatic Irony

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A character who is changed throughout their story by events that occur

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Dynamic character

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The continuation of a sentence without a pause at the end of a line or stanza

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Enjambment

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A significant change that redirects entire course of life, saves them from death (spiritual or literal)

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Epiphany

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The act of explaining something

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Explication

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The setting up of a story, background info

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Exposition

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Like a conceit, a metaphor so complicated that the author must explain it

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Extended metaphor

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A manner of speech in which things that are different are compared, simile, metaphor, personification

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Figurative speech

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A character who is not very described or important, not much dimension, just kind of there

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Flat character

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A character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight particular qualities in the other character

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Foil

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A literary device in which an author hints at what is yet to come

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Foreshadowing

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Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter

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Free verse

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Categories of literature or other artistic forms

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Genre

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Type of rhyme formed by words that do not completely rhyme but are similar such as fame and lane that Shakespeare used

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Half rhyme

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Excessive pride

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Hubris

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Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

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Hyperbole

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The authors use of vivid descriptive language in order to paint a picture in the readers mind

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Image/imagery

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The process by which the personality of a character is brought out through their speech actions or appearance

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Indirect characterization

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A type of metaphor that compares two things without stating one of them, but alluding to it

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Implied/indirect metaphor

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The expression of one's meaning by using language or actions that normally signify the opposite

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Irony

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A figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as an unrelated thing

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Metaphor

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A unit of rhythm in poetry, a pattern

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Meter

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The formation of a word from a sound associated with what it is named

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Onomatopoeia

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A statement that seems self contradictory but actually makes sense when thought upon

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Paradox

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The way one behaves and talks that causes them to be seen in a particular way, a social role or character played by an actor

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Persona

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The attribution of human characteristics to something nonhuman for literary effect

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Personification

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Narrative term defined as the events that make up a story, particularly as they relate to each other

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Plot

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Point of view using I or personal pronouns

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1st person

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Point of view using you, talking to audience

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2nd person

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Point of view in which it is being narrated by an outside source, but only shows on persons feelings and point of view

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3rd person limited

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Point of view in which the narrator is an outside source that is all-knowing of everything

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3rd person omniscient

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Written or spoken language without metrical structure, not poetry (but now it is)

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Prose

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Leading character, not necessarily good

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Protagonist

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Play on words, make one word have multiple meanings

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Pun

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Correspondence of sounds between words of the endings of words

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Rhyme

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alternating stressed and unstressed syllables, no specific order necessary

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Rhythm

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Series of related incidents that build toward the point of greatest interest in a story

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Rising action

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Complex, developed, multidimensional characters

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Round character

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Type of verbal irony with an insincere tone

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Sarcasm

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Includes the place, moment in time that a story takes place and helps set the mood and backdrop for the story

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Setting

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A comparison using like or as

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Simile

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Type of irony in which someone pretends to be ignorant in order to expose someone else

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Socratic Irony

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The person or thing that is speaking in a literary work

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Speaker

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Smaller unit within a poem or verse in a song

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Stanza

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A character that does not change

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Static character

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The emphasis that falls on certain syllables and not others in a poem, emphasized thing

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Stress

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Specifically what a work is about, summation of idea

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Subject

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Something used for or regarding as representing something else

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Symbol

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What is being said about the subject, what you learn about the subject

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Theme

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Proposition put forward, a statement made for consideration

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Thesis

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The authors attitude towards the subject

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Tone

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Personality trait of a main character that leads to their downfall

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Tragic flaw

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Saying the opposite of what you mean

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Verbal irony

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The appearance of being true or real

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Verisimilitude

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A small work that gives an impression of a greater idea, for example plays without speaking before actual plays in order to give the idea of what would happen

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Vignette

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A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning

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Allegory

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River flowing through England

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Thames

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Place Shakespeare was born

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Stratford upon Avon

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Shakespeare's wife

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Anne Hathaway

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A theater made famous by Shakespeare

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The globe

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Queen in power during early time of Shakespeare

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Elizabeth I

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King in power during end of Shakespeare's time

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James I

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Name of Shakespeare's troupe during reign of James I

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Kings men

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Type of verse that Shakespeare used, unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Blank verse

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Four lines of a sonnet

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Quatrain

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Name of Shakespeare's troupe during reign of Elizabeth I

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Lord Chamberlains men

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Theater built by Philip henslowe, housed the admirals men, produced Shakespeare's first play

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The rose

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Disease going on during Shakespeare's time that killed many

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The plague

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English poet, playwright, and actor during the late 1500s, early 1600s

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Shakespeare

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Poem made of fourteen lines with iambic pentameter that rhymes every other line

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Sonnet

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Pair of lines at the end of a sonnet

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Couplet

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When a character is alone on stage speaking their thoughts to the audience in a long speech

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Soliloquy

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When a character makes a remark to himself that only the audience can supposedly hear

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Aside

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A play based on historical facts | Lost two

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History Henry V King John

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A play with a happy ending or intended to make the audience happy list two

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Comedy A midsummer nights dream Twelfth night

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A play with a sad ending

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Tragedy

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4 great tragedies

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Hamlet Othello King Lear Macbeth

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Two most widely taught Shakespeare plays

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Romeo and Juliet | Julius Ceasar

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Those who paid a single penny to stand in the ground and watch the plays

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Groundlings or Penny knaves

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Type of meter that Shakespeare used using five iambs

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Iambic pentameter

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Other name for climax

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Crisis point/turning point

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Those who believe that Shakespeare was NOT the one who wrote the plays attributed to him

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Oxfordians

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Those who believe that Shakespeare WAS the one who wrote the plays attributed to him

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Stratfordians

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Person who some believe to be the true author of Shakespeare's plays

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Edward DeVere

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This person was hung by his foot as a baby, but then found and accidentally killed his father then married his mother, then found out and went insane

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Oedipus

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This was a daughter of Oedipus who defied her uncle to bury her brother and then died. She had hubris

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Antigone

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The creature with the body of a lion and a human head that Oedipus solved its riddle and the. It killed itself

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Sphinx

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Man credited for the invention of two actors on a stage

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Aeschylus

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Man credited for the invention of actors, having one man step out and act while the rest sing a story

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Thespis

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God of fertility and wine

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Dionysus

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Second play of the Theban trilogy where Oedipus finds out he's married to the queen and such

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Oedipus Rex

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First play of the Theban trilogy where he kills the Sphinx and his father and marries his mother

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Oedipus at Colonus

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Third play in the Theban trilogy in which the next King doesn't bury the brother and the sister gets mad

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Antigone

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Book written by Aristotle about literary stuff

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The poetics

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Leader of the chorus

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Chorogus

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Blind prophet who helped find out who Oedipus was

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Teiresias

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An oracle that proclaims that Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother

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Delphi

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Kingdom where Oedipus originated

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Thebes

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Catharsis

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Emotional purging

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Place where people sang

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Ampitheater

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Man who invented three to four characters on stage and author of Theban trilogy

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Sophocles

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A characters greatest weakness, such as hubris, jealousy

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Tragic flaw

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8 Components of an Aristotelian tragedy

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``` Someone highly renowned and prosperous Tragic flaw Responsible for own downfall Recognize error Accept consequences Humble Enlightened Punishment exceeds crime ```

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Aristotle

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Greek thinker, defined tragedy