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Comedy of Manners

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a comedy that satirizes behavior in a particular social group, especially the upper classes

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Genre: Parody

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A imitation of another work and is generally done in a comedic way that can sometimes be seen as exaggerated.

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Verbal Irony

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Verbal irony occurs when a speaker speaks something contradictory to what he intends to.

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Scene

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A sequence of continuous action in a play, movie, opera, or book

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Playwright

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(Noun) A person who writes plays

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Act

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A major division in a play. An act can be subdivided into scenes.

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Wit

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mental sharpness and inventiveness; keen intelligence (wit, noun.) or showing or characterized by quick and inventive verbal humor (witty, adj.)

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Symbolism

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the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense.

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Flat Character

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an easily recognized character type in fiction who may not be fully present but is useful in carrying out some narrative purpose of the author.

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Stock Character

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A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a type in a conventional manner and recurring in many works. (Stereotypical character)

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Dramatic Irony

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irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play

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Genre: Farce

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a light dramatic work in which highly improbable plot situations, exaggerated characters, and often slapstick elements are used for humorous effect. (over-the-top comedy, on purpose)

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Situational Irony

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a situation in which the opposite action takes place of what was expected.

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Reversal

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The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist- from failure to success or success to failure. (noun) "A plot twist"

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Flashback

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a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.

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Characterized

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to describe the character or individual quality of. (verb)

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Aside

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Words spoken by an actor directly to an audience, but not "heard" by the other characters on stage during a play.

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Monologue

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A speech by a single character without another character's response. The character however, is speaking to someone else or even a group of people

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Stage Direction

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Stage Direction- (noun) an instruction written in the script of the play and gives direction to actors/actresses gesturing the action of a play.

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Foreshadow

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literary technique that introduces an apparently irrelevant element introduced early in a story.

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Round Character

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A complex literary character with fully developed and dynamic traits

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Soliloquy

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an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.

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Foil

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A character that shows qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character with the objective to highlight the traits of the other character.

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Genre: Tragic comedy

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a literary device used in a play or novel that contains both tragedy and comedy

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