vocab

Question 1

define aside

Answer 1

when a character may turn to the audience to make an observation or quippy remark that the other characters can’t hear.

macbeth says as an aside that this supernatural soliciting cannot be ill etc. after he hears the first set of prophecies.

dramatic devise

Question 2

define soliloquy

Answer 2

an act of speaking ones thoughts allowed not intended to be heard by other characters.

typically longer than an aside.

dramatic device

Question 3

define deuteragonist

Answer 3

the person of second importance next to the protagonist

Question 4

define hamartia

Answer 4

fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a character.

Question 5

define regicide

Answer 5

the act of killing a king

Question 6

define blank verse

Answer 6

a verse without rhyme, and typically in iambic pentameter

Question 7

pathetic fallacy

Answer 7

Pathetic fallacy – where there are unnatural things happening in the natural world that characters cannot fix, it means something is going wrong.