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Romeo & Juliet Flashcards

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Greek Tragedy

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A person of importance and outstanding personal qualities, falls to disaster through the combination of a personal failing and circumstances with which he or she cannot deal.

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Tragic Protagonists

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Despite their virtuous and sympathetic traits and ambitions, they ultimately meet defeat.

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Antagonist

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A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something.

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Extended Metaphor

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A version of metaphor that extends over the course of multiple lines, paragraphs, or stanzas of prose or poetry.

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Soliloquy

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An act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers.

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Aside

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A remark or passage in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play.

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Hubris

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Excessive pride towards or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis.

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Hamartia

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A fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine.

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Catharsis

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The process of releasing strong or repressed emotions.

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Dramatic Irony

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A literary device by which the audience’s or reader’s understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses that of its characters.

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Monologue

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A long speech by one actor in a play or film.

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Unrequited Love

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When one person yearns for unconditional love from another individual who doesn’t feel the same way.

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Courtly Love

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A medieval tradition of love between a knight and a married noblewoman.

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Volatile

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Liable to change rapidly and unpredictably, especially for the worse.

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Emotional

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Having feelings that are easily excited and openly displayed.

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Impetuous

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Acting or done quickly and without thought or care.

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Machismo

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Strong or aggressive masculine pride.

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Antithesis

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A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.

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Iambic Pentameter

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A line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable.

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Sonnet

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A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

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Shared Lines

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When two or more characters share a line of iambic verse between them.

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Rhyming Couplets

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A rhyming pair of successive lines of verse, typically of the same length.

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Protagonist

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The leading character or one of the major characters in a play.

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Prose

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Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.

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Verse

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Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme.

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Fate

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The development of events outside a person’s control, regarded as predetermined by a supernatural power.

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Free Will

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The power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate.

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Honour

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Regard with great respect.

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Society

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The aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community.

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Patriarchy

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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.

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Primogeniture

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The state of being the firstborn child.

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Feud

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A prolonged and bitter quarrel or dispute.

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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.

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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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Contemporary

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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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Innocent and unsuspecting.

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