Analyctic Vocab for Features in a Play

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Catastrophe
The moment that unravels the intrigue and brings the piece to a close e.g. the revelation of a secret death of a main character
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Catharsis
The purging of the feelings of pity and fear.
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Climax
The turning point in the action of the plot of the play and the point of greatest tension in the work.
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Complication
An intensification in the conflict in a play.
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Conflict
The conflict in opposing forces in the play. Can either be external (between the characters) or internal (within a character). It is usually resolved by the end of a play.
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Denoument (resolution)
The outcome of the main complication in a play. It usually occurs after the climax. Also known as the explanation or outcome of a drama in which the audience discovers secrets and misunderstandings linking to the plot.
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Monologue
A speech by a single character towards another character or group of characters without another character's response/interruption.
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Exposition
The first stage of a fictional or dramatic plot, where necessary background information is provided.
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Falling Action
The events and complications in a play begin to resolve themselves and tension is released. Also whether the conflict has been resolved or not.
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Flashback
An interruption of the play's chonology to describe/present an event/incident that occured prior to the main-time frame of the play's action.
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Foreshadowing
When the writer hints at future events yet tp occur in narrative time.
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Peripeteia (reversal)
The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protaganist or other main characters. They learn something they did not expect to learn when the play began.
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Rising Action
An event, conflict or crisis or set of conflicts and crises that constitute to the build up of the climax.
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Dramatic Irony
Audience clued in to irony that the characters are not aware of.
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Proleptic Irony
Occurs when an earlier event gives the audience a clue to a later event in the day.
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Satire
A literary work that critisizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities and follies.
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Antagonist
A character/force against which another character struggles. (Some see the Inspector as the main antagonist, whilst others argue the Birlings).
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The purging of the feelings of pity and fear.

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Catharsis

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The turning point in the action of the plot of the play and the point of greatest tension in the work.

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Card 4

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An intensification in the conflict in a play.

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Card 5

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The conflict in opposing forces in the play. Can either be external (between the characters) or internal (within a character). It is usually resolved by the end of a play.

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