I listed on the board the poetic techniques and elements that create meaning in a poem and provided definitions of terms Max did not know such as oxymoron , juxtaposition , and assonance . We then began our study of Antony and Cleopatra by my providing instruction on the theory of tragedy and k defining hamartia. We began to focus on certain scenes in the play that dramatize Mark Antony's tragic decline and fall. Max did well in recognizing the tragic flaw and the misjudgments of Antony.