Key Vocabulary Flashcards
Ambiguous
Unclear, not everything is apparent
Regicide
to kill the king
Harmatia
macbeths fatal flaw of ambition
Pathetic fallacy
reflection of mood in the weather (stage directions)
rhyming couplets
rhyming words at the end which witches normally use
transgressive
another word for manipulative (useful for LM)
Tragedy
where someone dies at the end and there is a downfall in one or more characters
soliloquy
A character addressing themselves and speaking their thoughts aloud
Fate
Where you have no control in what may happen
Betrayal
Where one character acts hastly behind anothers back… Macbeth towards Banquo
Dramatic Irony
a situation understood by the audience but not the characters
Pivotal Moment
Moment in the narrative in which events are changed forever (duncan’s death)
Hallucination
A vision or illusion
