📖English lit Subject Terminology Flashcards
Eng: Dickens past
Dickens’ past included many hardships, such as working in a blacking factory when he was 12 and his fathers imprisonment for debt
Eng: foil
An intentional contrast between 2 characters
Eng: didactic
A text that is intended to teach a moral lesson
Eng: apparition
A ghost of ghostlike image of a person
Eng: parsimonious
Very unwilling to spend money or use resources
Eng: avarice
Extreme greed for wealth
Eng: misanthropy
A dislike of humankind
Eng: poignant
Evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret
Eng: Bildungsroman
A text that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of a character
Eng: miser
Someone who hordes wealth and spends as little as possible
Eng: covetous
Having a great desire to possess something belonging to someone else
Eng: destitute
Laking the means to provide for oneself
Eng: What is hubris
What is exaggerated pride of self confidence
Eng: what is hamartia
A fatal flaw
Eng: who is Malcom
He is the rightful heir to the throne
Eng: what is a soliloquy
a speech given by one character which is assumed to be an internal series of thoughts unheard by others
Eng: what is an aside
is a short speech from a character that is spoken directly to the audience
Eng: what is anagorisis
It is a moment of realisation
Eng: what is Macbeths anagorisis in the play
It is when Macduff tells Macbeth that he was a Caesarian section
Eng: who did Macbeth unsheath to the nave from the chaps
Macdonwald
Eng: why does lady Macbeth not kill the king when she drugs the guards
Duncan reminds her of her father
Eng: what does banquo shake at Macbeth in act 3
His “gory locks”
Eng: why does Shakespeare open the play with the witches
To hook the audience with the supernatural and to show their control over future events
Eng: what is a fricative
Repeated f sounds
