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Literary terms definitions…
Climax: The turning point or high point in a plot
Comedy: One of two major types of drama, the other being tragedy. Its aim is to amuse, and it typically ends happily.
Comedy of Manners: meant to reflect the weakness of society with aim to correct low manners.
Conflict: a clash of actions, desires, idea, or goals in the plot of the story or drama. It may exist between the main characters and some destructive elements in his own nature.
Tragedy: A drama in style or Poetry about a noble, courageous hero who, because of some tragic character flaw, brings ruin upon him- or herself.
Fiction: Any story that is the product of imagination rather than a ation of fact. author.
Falling Action: it means the resolution of conflict in fiction or drama. The conclusion follows the climax and provides an outcome to the primary plot situation as well as an explanation of secondary plot complications. The conclusion often involves a character's recognition of his or her state of mind or moral condition.
Drama: a drama is any work designed to be presented by actors on a stage.
Irony: the effect of language in which the intended meaning is the opposite of what is stated.
Rising Action: The part of a drama where the plot becomes very complicated. Rising action leads up to the climax of a drama.
Setting: The time, place, and culture in which the action takes place.
Soliloquy: it is a speech in a play made by a character to expresses his thoughts or feelings aloud while alone which made it possible for characters to debate with themselves on moral and philosophical matters and made it easier to interact with the audience to show their thoughts and feelings.
Style: the manner of writing or speaking or doing something.( contrasted with the thing done)
Plot: term refers to the pattern of events in which a drama is composed and the way it's ordered ( begging, middle and end).
Exposition: Writing intended to explain the nature of an idea, thing, or theme.
Theme: The central idea of a literary work.
Symbolism: something that means more than what it is. A person, object, situation or action that in addition to it's literal meaning suggests other meanings as well.
Miracle plays: were about the stories of saints life 'important people’ how saints could solve problems and they were played in churches where they had good effects on human minds.
Mystery plays: were about the stories of the bible e.g. Noah and how Lucifer and how Lucifer fell down from heaven and Christ how he used to cure people and about his wisdom, to create a sense of awe (power and wisdom) to inspire (faith and courage) , frighten (fear of the devil), improve (the quality of human personality).
Restoration comedy: refers to English comedies written and performed in the Restoration period from 1660 to 1700
phor: a figure of speech in which an understood comparison is made between two things basically unlike.
Anti-climax: a decrease in the importance of an event or saying.
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