COMEDIES (write a sentence in each area to explain your plot)
Scene 1:
A very important person, aka the protagonist
(King, duke, leader of a group) ___________________________
Is told or discovers that something terrible is happening or will happen
(Someone has died, the character is exiled, shipwreck, they are being dethroned)
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But, there is hope
(An inheritance, run away with true love, washed up on an island )
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Scene 2:
So, he tells his most trusted person, a confidante or sometimes a fool
(Friend, wife, co-leader, jester, farmer) ________________________________________
That person creates a silly plan
(Dressing in disguise, an elaborate trap to reveal intentions, a party)
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The protagonist has a touching moment with the person they love
(Revealing true feelings, midnight rendez-vous)
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Scene 3:
The protagonist enacts the plan, but something goes wrong
(Someone mistakes part of the plan or it just flops, forgetfulness)
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The protagonist confronts the antagonist
(A chase, true intentions are revealed to the world, mistaken identities revealed)
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There is a new stasis in the world
(A new leader appears, everyone gets married)
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QUOTES (choose four)
-The course of true love never did run smooth
-I am that merry wanderer of the night
-You cankerblossom! You thief of love! What, have you come by night and stolen my love’s heart from
him?
- We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let's go hand in hand, not one before
another.
- If I be waspish, best beware my sting.
- What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay
- Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
- Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
-Thou wert best set thy lower part where thy nose stands.
TRAGEDIES (write a sentence in each area to explain your plot)
Scene 1:
A very important person, aka the protagonist
(King, duke, leader of a group) ___________________________
Is told or discovers that something great is happening
(He gets a higher status, won something) ___________________________________
But, he is given a warning
(Death, misfortune for others) ________________________________________________
Scene 2:
So, he tells his most trusted person, aka the antagonist
(Friend, wife, co-leader) ________________________________________
That person creates a plan
(Betrayal, lying, cheating someone, killing someone)
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The protagonist performs a soliloquy
(Rethinking the plan, wondering if he should trust the antagonist)
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Scene 3:
The protagonist enacts the plan, but something goes wrong
(He changes his mind, he finds out the betrayal happened)
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The protagonist confronts the antagonist
(Sword fight or kills the person, turns them into the authorities)
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There is a new stasis in the world
(A new leader appears, everyone dies)
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QUOTES (Choose five)
- Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
- Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
- Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
- Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
- Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
- But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
- Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
-This, above all, to thine own self be true.
- We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
- False face must hide what the false heart doth know.