AO1 Flashcards
What does innate mean?
Present at birth but not usually hereditary
What does amiable mean?
Friendly
What does demure?
Shy and modest
What does coerce mean?
Do something through pressure
Tragic hero
Protagonist of the story, victim of fate - Othello
What does elated mean?
Happy
Desis
“tying” - action building up to the climax
Monologue
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
What is aberration?
A departure from what is normal
What does abhor mean?
Disgust
Diction
The manner in which words are pronouced
What does connive mean?
Secretly allowing something immoral to occur
What does intrepid mean?
Fearless
Tragic victim
Victim of the tragic hero/fate - Desdemona
What does insular mean?
Narrow-minded
Dramatic irony
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
Soliloquy
A speech meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage
What does cajole mean?
Persuade
Lusis
“untying” - action following the climax
What does alacrity mean?
Eagerness
In media res
“In the midst of things”
Contemporary tragedy
Written in the last 20th century, early 21st century
Tragic villain
Villain - Iago
Fate
The cause of the inevitable demise in tragedy
Catharsis
Purging of emotions from the audience
Peripeteia
Fall from high to low status
What does deferential mean?
Respectful
Harmatia
Fatal flaw
What does arcane mean?
Mysterious
Hubris
Excessive pride
Pathos
Evoke a feeling of pity
Classical tragedy
Plays written in ancient Greece or Rome, or in a similar style
What does decry mean?
Strong disaproval
Anagnorisis
Recognition of wrong doing, realisation
What does complacency mean?
Self-satisfaction
Unity of time, place and action
Limiting the time, place, and action of a play to a single spot and a single action over the period of 24 hours
Myopia
Blindness
What does candour mean?
Honesty
What does brazen mean?
Shameless
Machiavel
A character who is prepared to act immorally to achieve what they want
Malcontent
A character who is dissatisfied because of some unfair treatment, often a decision made by the protagonist
Chorus
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.
Megalopsychia
Greatness of soul
