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indirect reference
allusion
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outdoor theater
amphitheater
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
blank verse
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stadium or large theater
colosseum
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play with happy ending
comedy
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funny part in sad play
comic relief
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two rhyming lines
couplet
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approx. 500-1000 A.D.
Dark Ages
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resolution, ending
denoument
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literature to be performed
drama
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opposite character
dramatic foil
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audience knows, character doesn't
dramatic irony
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dialogue written in poetry for play
dramatic poetry
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hint at what's coming
foreshadowing
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business organization
guild
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way to get message across
media
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tragic-comedy with music
melodrama
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saying one thing is another
metaphor
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approx. 1000-1500 A.D.
Middle Ages
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traveling poet/musician
minstrel
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enactment of Bible story
miracle play
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long speech while others listen
monologue
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allegorical play about good v. evil
morality play
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in view of audience
onstage
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contradictory but true phrase
oxymoron
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supporter or audience member
patron
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giving life to something
personification
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flier about a play
playbill
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person who writes play
playwright
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speech at beginning
prologue
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objects to add realism
props
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sentences and paragraphs
prose
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beginning of Protestant religion
Reformation
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flowering of literature, science, art
Renaissance
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whole collection of plays
repertoire
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part determined by time and location
scene
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written play (manuscript)
script
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saying something is like something
simile
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speech alone on stage
soliloquy
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14-line lyric poem
sonnet
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comments about movements, etc.
stage directions
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play with sad ending
tragedy
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