Cre vocab 1

Question 1

Tragedy

Answer 1

An event causing suffering

Question 2

Tragic hero

Answer 2

Main character who experiences a tragic downfall

Question 3

Dichotomy of good and evil

Answer 3

Evil is bad and good must prevail

Question 4

Hamartia

Answer 4

Fatal flaw

Question 5

Fate and fortune

Answer 5

Something that is bound to happen + riches / happiness

Question 6

Greed

Answer 6

Selfish desire for something

Question 7

Revenge

Answer 7

Harming someone because they did something to you

Question 8

Supernatural

Answer 8

Something that is beyond scientific understanding

Question 9

Internal and external pressures

Answer 9

Internal - pressuring yourself
External - society / friends or family pressuring you

Question 10

Romance

Answer 10

Associated with love

Question 11

Sonnet

Answer 11

Poem with 14 lines usually having 10 syllables in a line

Question 12

Soliloquy

Answer 12

Speaking your thoughts aloud by yourself or when others are there

Question 13

Dramatic irony

Answer 13

When something in a play happens, the audience knows, but the characters don’t

Question 14

Evocative O

Answer 14

Something that gives positive feedback / emotion

Question 15

Conflict

Answer 15

Serious disagreement / arguement

Question 16

Proleptic irony

Answer 16

A earlier event gives the audience a clue to and event later in the play

Question 17

Exposition

Answer 17

Introduction

Question 18

Culmination

Answer 18

Climax

Question 19

Hubris

Answer 19

Excessive pride + arrogance

Question 20

Monologue

Answer 20

Long speech usually made an actor or character

Question 21

Stage directions

Answer 21

Instruction in a play indicating the movement, position etc, of a character

Question 22

Staging

Answer 22

Method of presenting a play

Question 23

Symbolism

Answer 23

Use of symbols to represent something

Question 24

Active and passive voice

Answer 24

Active - tells us what a person/thing does
Passive - tells us what if done to someone/something

Question 25

Power

Answer 25

Ability to act or do something in a particular way

Question 26

Guilt

Answer 26

Feeling of doing something wrong

Question 27

Scene sequencing

Answer 27

Multiple scenes connected by something

Question 28

Role

Answer 28

A part in a play etc.

Question 29

Intonation

Answer 29

The way you speak

Question 30

Tone

Answer 30

Talking about something, pitch, quality, and strength

Question 31

Volume

Answer 31

How loud something is or a series of books

Question 32

Mood

Answer 32

Temporary state of mind / feeling

Question 33

Silence

Answer 33

No sound

Question 34

Stillness

Answer 34

No movement or sound

Question 35

Action

Answer 35

A thing done