soliloquy - character shares feelings alone on stage, aside - breaking 4th wall, tragedy - tragic flaw, death, fate, comedy - HEA, mistaken identity, disorder to forgiveness, parody - deliberate exaggeration for effect, HEA: Happily Ever After - everyone gets married at the end, Tragic Flaw/harmartia - weakness that brings about downfall of main character, Metaphorical - comparison, analogy, mistaken identity - farcical/cross-dressing, forgive and forget - resolution/conclusion, satire - irony, hyperbole, social commentary, disorder - chaos, irony - verbal, situational, dramatic, hyperbole - exaggerations, social commentary - What is the purpose? What is the author stating about the world?, pride/hubris - the only crime, scansion - identifying patterns of feet and meter and rhyme in poetry, iambs - dah DUM, meter - the number of feet in a line, feet - rhythmic syllables in poetry, usually two, tone shift - shift in emotion of speaker/character in a play or narrator in prose, tragic flaw - the protagonists' weakness that brings about his downfall, fate vs free will - fate: our lives/or destiny is predetermined, free will: we choose our lives, foil - contrasting characters that highlight one another's weaknesses, couplets - two rhyming lines at the end of a scene, motif - repeated image throughout a work, pseudonym - fictitious name, controversy - conflict/conflicting opinions, connotation - a word's figurative meaning/understood meaning,

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