Key Words Flashcards
Greek Tragedy
the protagonist falls to disaster through the combination of falling in which he or she cannot deal
tragic protagonist
Despite a protagonist doing good deeds, they get defeated
antagonist
The main bad person
extended metaphor
a metaphor that extends over the course of paragraphs, stanzas of prose or poetry and multiple lines.
soliloquy
an act of saying the actors thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardkess of any hearers
aside
to one side, out of the way
hubris
self-confidence
hamartia
a flaw leading to the a loss or downfall of a tragic hero or heroine
catharsis
process or releasing, and providing relief from, represssed emotions
dramatic irony
when the audience knows something that the characters don’t
monologue
a long line or speech a character says in a play or film
unrequited love
it is when a person wants unconditional live from another.
courtly love
it is a tradition in western europen writing between 12th and 14th centuries, love between knight and a marries lady
Volatile
Sutiation changes unpredicually
emotional
sad and happy
impetuous
doing something quickly without care
machismo
masculine pride
antithesis
a person or thing that is opposite to something else
Eg romeo and juiliet
iambic pentameter
A rhythm that had beat. Eg de dum de dum de dum
Eg Two households, both alike in dignity.
sonnet
a poem with 14 lines and a formal rhyme scheme
shared lines
Two or more characters that share a line in an iambic verse
rhyming couplets
Two lines in an iambic pentameter that end in teh same sound or rhythme
Protagonist
The good person in a play or film or book etc
Prose
speech used by people in Shakespearean drama
Verse
lines of a play that follow a specific pattern of stressed and unstressd syllables
Fate
the power that is supported to settle ahead of time of how things will happen
Free will
to lay bare the souls of characters
Honour
High respect
Society
a community
Patriarchy
when men to over society and excluding women
Primogeniture
a system of which the oldest sons inherit their fathers wealth and land and other things
Feud
a long-standing fight
