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- Logical
- Facts/brain
- Ethical
- Right/or wrong/beliefs
- Emotional
- Feelings/heart/soul
- Exposition
- Creates tone, states setting, and provides background. Act 1
- Incentive moment
- Point at which the tragic hero becomes aware of the possibilities for action .Act 1
- Initial Incident
- Actual first piece of action done by the tragic hero. Act 1
- Rising action
- Complication; the building of tension caused by the conflict of opposing interests. Act 2
- Climax
- Also called the turning point; the peak of action and emotional intensity. Act 3
- Falling action
- Stresses action from the forces opposing the hero; suspense must be maintained while action moves swiftly and logically toward the disaster-the tragedy. Act 4
- Catastrophe or Resolution
- The moment marking the hero's tragic failure. Often manifested by his death. Act 4
- Aftermath
- Act v. The ending. The good that comes out.
- Blank verse
- Unrhymed poetry in iambic pentameter. Ten syllable lines.
- Anachronism
- An event or detail in a literary work that is placed outside its proper historical period.ex. Julius Caesar not placed in Shakespeare time.
- Soliloquy
- A long speech given by an actor alone of stage who speaks his thoughts and feelings directly to the audience.. Ex Cassius
- Character Foil
- A character who develops another through contrast
- Tragedy
- Depicts death or destruction of a hero. Hero suffers because of a tragic flaw.
- Tragic Hero
- A great man who through some flaw of defect in an otherwise noble character brings about his own destruction.
- Tragic Flaw
- A fault in character which leads to a great man's destruction.
- Men at some time are masters of their fatesā¬¦
- Cassius
- Let me have men about me that are fat
- Caesar
- When beggars die, there are no comets seen
- Calpurnia
- Stoop, then, and wash
- Cassius
- Friend, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears
- Antony
- For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel.
- Antony
- This was the noblest Roman of them all
- Antony
- Analyze characterization
- The character itself, facts, and basic knowledge
- Objectivity
- Things the person did with no opinion
- Subjectivity
- Your opinion on things