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Collection 4 Terms Flashcards

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Figurative Language

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creates comparisons by linking the senses and the concrete to abstract ideas

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Fortune’s Fool

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“O, I am Fortune’s fool!”, the idea is that Romeo believes he is being used for the god’s entertainment

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Tragic Hero

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has virtuous and sympathetic traits but ultimately meets with suffering or defeat.

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Foil

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prevent (something considered wrong or undesirable) from succeeding.

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Tragic Flaw

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Juliet’s tragic flaw of foolish decision-making leads her to an early death.

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Pun

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a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.

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