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English Vocab Flashcards

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Tragedy (Greek)

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Genre of drama and mostly includes human suffering

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Tragic Protagonists

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A Tragic Protagonist (or “Tragic Hero”) is the main role in a tragedy.

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Antagonist

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An Antagonist is opposing the Protagonist. They’re usually enemies and villains of the story.

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Extended Metaphor

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An Extended Metaphor is a metaphor that can be continued through lines, paragraphs, or even a whole story.

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Soliloquy

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A Soliloquy is when a character talks to themselves, without anyone hearing.

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(An) Aside

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An Aside is when a character talks to someone else in the scene, without the other people hearing even though in real life they probably would.

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Hubris

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Technically it means Lots of self-confidence. In Greeks Tragedies, it is when someone resists and questions the Gods, leading to punishment.

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Hamartia

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Associated with Greek Tragedies, it is a fatal flaw of the main character and also their weakness.

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Catharsis

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It’s when someone does something to releive themselves and to cleanse them.

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Dramatic Irony

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Dramatic Irony is when the audience knows something that the character doesn’t.

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Monolougue

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A Monolougue is one person doing a speech by themselves.

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Unrequited Love

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Unrequited Love is when one person loves another but the other one doesn’t love them back.

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Courtly Love

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Courtly love was a western medieval idea about knights doing something heroic to make a princess fall in love with him and get married.

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Volatile

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Volatile is when there is a sudden and unexpected change in situation.

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(Being) Emotional

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Being Emotional is when someone expresses their opinions and expressions about something.

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(Being) Impetuous

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Being Impetuous is when someone makes a decision quickly and without much care.

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Machismo

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Machismo is strong male pride. Lots of aggresion.

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Antithesis

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Antithesis is when someone or something is the opposite of someone else or something else.

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Iambic Pentameter

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Iambic Pentameter is a style of poetry. Each line is 10 syllables, with every 2 having more emphasis than the one before Example: a heartbeat. da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM.

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Sonnet

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A Sonnet is a 14 line poem written in Iambic Pentameter.

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Shared Lines

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Shared lines is when 2 or more people says Iambic Pentameter verse(s) between them.

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Rhyming couplets

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A Couplet is a pair of lines in a verse. A Rhyming couplet is one that rhymes, using the same rhyming pattern over again.

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Protagonist

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A Protagonist is the hero, heroine or main character of a story.

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Prose

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Prose is normal talking without rhyming.

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Verse

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Verse is talking with rhythm and possibly rhyming.

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Fate

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Fate is something happening to them that they cant change and aren’t in control of.

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Free Will

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Free Will is when someon gets to have their own choices in life.

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Honour

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Honour is how high someone is reagarded or respected.

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Society

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Society is the way our species is orginased and managed.

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Patriarchy

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A Patriarchy is a male-dominated society.

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Primogeniture

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Primogeniture is the way ancient kings would pass on the crown. It was to the firstborn male child.

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Feud

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A Feud is an argument or debate.

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Reputation

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The beliefs or opinions that are generally held about someone or something.

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Mercurial

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Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind.

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Anarchic

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Unruly and chaotic.

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Impulsive

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Someone who acts on a whim, without thinking.

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Tempestuous

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Someone who is unpredictable and has many conflicting emotions.

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Liberal

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Willing to respect or accept behaviour or opinions different from one’s own; open to new ideas.

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Social Class

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Social class, also called class, a group of people within a society who possess the same socioeconomic status.

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Comtemporary

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Living or occurring at the same time.

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Quixotic

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Extremely idealistic: unrealistic and impractical.

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Melancholic

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A feeling of sadness, typically with no obvious cause.

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Masculinity

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Qualities or attributes regarded as characteristic of men.

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Challenging Conventions

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Going against what is perceived as the norm.

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Ingenuous

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(Of a person or action) innocent and unsuspecting.

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