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Question 1

What does innate mean?

Answer 1

Present at birth but not usually hereditary

Question 2

What does amiable mean?

Answer 2

Friendly

Question 3

What does demure?

Answer 3

Shy and modest

Question 4

What does coerce mean?

Answer 4

Do something through pressure

Question 5

Tragic hero

Answer 5

Protagonist of the story, victim of fate - Othello

Question 6

What does elated mean?

Answer 6

Happy

Question 7

Desis

Answer 7

“tying” - action building up to the climax

Question 8

Monologue

Answer 8

A speech by a single character without another character’s response. The character however, is speaking to someone else or even a group of people

Question 9

What is aberration?

Answer 9

A departure from what is normal

Question 10

What does abhor mean?

Answer 10

Disgust

Question 11

Diction

Answer 11

The manner in which words are pronouced

Question 12

What does connive mean?

Answer 12

Secretly allowing something immoral to occur

Question 13

What does intrepid mean?

Answer 13

Fearless

Question 14

Tragic victim

Answer 14

Victim of the tragic hero/fate - Desdemona

Question 15

What does insular mean?

Answer 15

Narrow-minded

Question 16

Dramatic irony

Answer 16

A character has an expectation reversed in a way that the character did not expect but that the audience or readers have anticipated because their knowledge of events or individuals is more complete than the character’s

Question 17

Soliloquy

Answer 17

A speech meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage

Question 18

What does cajole mean?

Answer 18

Persuade

Question 19

Lusis

Answer 19

“untying” - action following the climax

Question 20

What does alacrity mean?

Answer 20

Eagerness

Question 21

In media res

Answer 21

“In the midst of things”

Question 22

Contemporary tragedy

Answer 22

Written in the last 20th century, early 21st century

Question 23

Tragic villain

Answer 23

Villain - Iago

Question 24

Fate

Answer 24

The cause of the inevitable demise in tragedy

Question 25

Catharsis

Answer 25

Purging of emotions from the audience

Question 26

Peripeteia

Answer 26

Fall from high to low status

Question 27

What does deferential mean?

Answer 27

Respectful

Question 28

Harmatia

Answer 28

Fatal flaw

Question 29

What does arcane mean?

Answer 29

Mysterious

Question 30

Hubris

Answer 30

Excessive pride

Question 31

Pathos

Answer 31

Evoke a feeling of pity

Question 32

Classical tragedy

Answer 32

Plays written in ancient Greece or Rome, or in a similar style

Question 33

What does decry mean?

Answer 33

Strong disaproval

Question 34

Anagnorisis

Answer 34

Recognition of wrong doing, realisation

Question 35

What does complacency mean?

Answer 35

Self-satisfaction

Question 36

Unity of time, place and action

Answer 36

Limiting the time, place, and action of a play to a single spot and a single action over the period of 24 hours

Question 37

Myopia

Answer 37

Blindness

Question 38

What does candour mean?

Answer 38

Honesty

Question 39

What does brazen mean?

Answer 39

Shameless

Question 40

Machiavel

Answer 40

A character who is prepared to act immorally to achieve what they want

Question 41

Malcontent

Answer 41

A character who is dissatisfied because of some unfair treatment, often a decision made by the protagonist

Question 42

Chorus

Answer 42

In Greek theatre, a group of actors would offer a commentary. The represented a more ‘common sense’ approach, and did not intervene in the action on stage.

Question 43

Megalopsychia

Answer 43

Greatness of soul