English Revision Flashcards
Hubris
Arrogant pride
Antagonist
An opponent or enemy
Tragic protagonist
The main characters in a tragic play
Impetuous
Acting quickly or suddenly without thinking
Dramatic irony
When the audience knows more than the characters on stage
Volitile
A situation that changes suddenly or unexpectedly
Monologue
A speech whereby an actor speaks to himself
Extended metaphor
A metaphor that is extended in great detail
Soliloquy
A long speech which is spoken by one person to others
Unrequited love
Loving someone who doesn’t love you back
Fate
The development of events outside a person’s control, regarded as predetermined by a supernatural power.
Free Will
The power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one’s own discretion.
Honour
High respect
Society
The aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community.
Family
A group of one or more parents and their children living together as a unit.
Patriarchy
A system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is reckoned through the male line
Primogeniture
The state of being the firstborn child
Feud
A prolonged and bitter quarrel or dispute.
Rhyme
The ends of words have the same sound. Usually at the ends of lines in poetry, but may be internal (within a line).
Rhythm
A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Sibilance
A type of literary device and figure of speech wherein a hissing sound is created in a group of words through the repetition of ‘s’ sounds.
Alliteration
Repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words – usually close in succession.
Assonance
Vowel sounds are repeated at the beginning or middle of nearby words.
Sound clutters
A group of sounds is repeated throughout a sentence or a group of lines in a poem, not just at the beginnings of words.
Onomatopoiea
A group of sounds is repeated throughout a sentence or a group of lines in a poem, not just at the beginnings of words.
Bounteous
Generously given or giving
