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Key Literary Elements
• Setting
• Character List
• Conflict
• Short Plot/Scene Summary (Synopsis)
• Themes
• Mood
• Background Information-Biography
• Literary/Historical Information
• Historical Context Of The Play

Scene Summaries with Notes
• Prologue And Parodos
• Exposition And First Stasimon
• Rise In Action
• Climax
• Exodus

Overall Analyses
• Character Analysis
• Plot Structure Analysis
• Themes Analysis
• Other Elements

Questions
• Study Questions

Comment
• Comment on the Study of Literature