Julius Caesar unit
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- comment by a character to the audience that reveals his or her inner thoughts and is not supposed to be heard by the other characters
- aside
- the final event of the dramatic action in a tragedy
- catastrophe
- a turning point in the plot after which the situation for the main character will either improve or grow worse
- climax - sometimes called the crisis
- a lighthearted play that ends happily
- comedy
- a humorous incident that appears in a serious play to relieve emotional intensity
- comic relief
- struggle between two opposing forces that provides interest and suspense in a drama
- conflict
- the lines spoken by the characters
- dialogue
- a form of literature using a script, stage direction, character parts, and division into acts
- drama
- when the audience knows something a character has not yet realized, or one character knows something others do not
- dramatic irony
- events that precede the play's main action; dialogue sometimes recounts events that occurred earlier
- flashback
- a character whose personality traits contrast sharply with the traits of another character
- foil
- a line or an event in a play that gives a clue about what is going to happen later
- foreshadowing
- a play set in the past, usually about royalty and the struggle for power
- history play
- contrast between the expected outcome of a situation and the actual outcome
- irony
- an extended speech by a single character
- monologue
- the reasons why characters behave the way they do
- motivation
- a brief drama within the play that reflects on the larger play
- play within a play
- a speech by a single character on stage who reveals his or her thoughts to the audience
- soliloquy
- a serious play with a disastrous ending
- tragedy
- a trait that will eventually bring about a character's downfall
- tragic flaw
- a privileged, exalted character of high repute, who, by virtue of a tragic flaw and fate, suffers a fall from glory into suffering
- tragic hero
- discrepancy between what a character says and what he or she means
- verbal irony