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when the audience knows something that a character in a play does not know, and the character behaves inappropriately because of his or her ignorance. E.g. in Twelfth Night, because of his ignorance, Malvolio acts foolishly, believing that this is appropriate. The audience can see how silly this is and finds it funny or absurd.
used in photography and filmmaking to create effects. Natural lighting is used, but...
See bottom or low-angle.
See inverted commas.
a sentence that uses the imperative form of the verb and often ends in an exclamation mark or a...
the study of the origin of words, and of their history and changes in their meaning (in other...