Key Terminology

Question 1

Ominous

Answer 1

Giving worrying impression that something bad is going to happen

Question 2

Foreboding

Answer 2

Feeling that something bad will happen

Question 3

Paradox

Answer 3

A seemingly absurd or contrary statement or proposition which when investigated may prove to be well founded or true

Question 4

Discord

Answer 4

Disagreement between people

Question 5

Equivocation

Answer 5

Use of ambiguous language to conceal truth

Question 6

Malevolence

Answer 6

Hostility, wanting to cause others harm

Question 7

Deception

Answer 7

Making someone believe something that isn’t true

Question 8

Uncanny

Answer 8

Not quite normal (eg. Witches speech is uncanny)

Question 9

Dramatic Irony

Answer 9

When the audience know something that the characters don’t

Question 10

Trochee/trochaic rhythm

Answer 10

Sense of unnatural speech - witches speak in it

Question 11

Aside

Answer 11

Character speak to themselves, other characters on stage but can’t hear

Question 12

Sycophantic

Answer 12

Flattering people in authority

Question 13

Stichomythia

Answer 13

Dialogue in which two characters speak alternate lines of verse

Question 14

Hamartia

Answer 14

A fatal flaw that leads to the downfall of the tragic hero

Question 15

Hubris

Answer 15

Excessive pride

Question 16

Arete, Aristeia

Answer 16

Excellence

Question 17

Catharsis

Answer 17

Cleansing of audience (release of emotional tension)

Question 18

Peripeteia

Answer 18

When a Greek hero realises everything he believed in is wrong; or a sudden reversal of fortune