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What is a Greek Tragedy?

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a dramatic play that often has a tragic or unhappy ending e.g Romeo and Juliet

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What are Tragic protagonists?

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the main character or one of the major characters in a Greek tragedy e.g Romeo and Juliet

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What is an antagonist?

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a character in a play that is the main enemy of/opposes the protagonist e.g Tybalt

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What is an extended metaphor?

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when a metaphor is sustained for longer than a single word or phrase e.g ‘But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun’

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What is a soliloquy?

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a monologue addressed to oneself outloud to the audience with other actors on stage but they cannot hear it e.g Romeo’s soliloquy when he first saw Juliet

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What is an aside?

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When two or more characters speak on stage that is intended for the audience to hear but not other characters on stage outside of this specific group

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What is hubris?

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excessive pride or self-confidence e.g Tybalt has a very big ego in the play

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What is an hamartia?

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a fatal flaw in which every hero/protaganist has e.g love for Romeo and Juliet

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What is catharsis?

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the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions

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What is dramatic irony?

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When the full significance of a characters words/actions is clear to the audience but unkown to the character e.g a serving man tells Romeo about the big party, not knowing that he is a Montague

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What is a monologue?

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a long speech by one actor in a play/film

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What is unrequited love?

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one-sided love that is not ‘returned’ by the loved one e.g Romeo’s love for Rosaline

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What is courtly love?

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idealizing love between a knight and a revered (usually married) lady e.g Romeo’s love for Juliet

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What is does Volatile mean?

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lightly to change rapidly and unpredictably, especially for the worse

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What does emotional mean?

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arousing or characterized by intense feeling e.g Romeo is very emotional when he finds Juliet dead

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What does impetuous mean?

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acting or done quickly and without thought or care e.g Juliet makes the impetuous desision to marry Romeo

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What is machismo?

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strong or aggressive masculine pride e.g Tybalt expresses alot of machismo

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What is antithesis?

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a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else e.g motague to Capulet

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What is an iambic pentameter?

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Iambic pentameter is a type of metric line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama. The term describes the rhythm, or meter, established by the words in that line; rhythm is measured in small groups of syllables called “feet”

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What is a sonnet?

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a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, employing one of several rhyme schemes

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What are shared lines?

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when two or more characters share a line of iambic verse

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What are rhyming couplets?

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a rhyming pair of successive lines of verse, typically of the same length

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What is a protagonist?

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The hero or one of the major characters of aplay, film, novel and more

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What is a prose?

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written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure

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What is a verse?

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a group of lines that form a unit in a poem or song; a stanza

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What is Fate?

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the course of someone’s life, or the outcome of a situation for someone or something, seen as outside their control.

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What is Free Will?

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the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate, the ability to act at one’s own discretion.

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What is Honour?

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High respect/great esteem

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What is Society?

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the community of people living in a particular country or region and having shared customs, laws, and organizations

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What is the Patriarchy?

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a system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it

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What is Primogeniture?

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The firstborn child

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What is a Feud?

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a prolonged and bitter quarrel or dispute

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