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Vocab Flashcards

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Kenning

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Compound expression used in old english to describe a noun.

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Epic poem

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A long narrative poem that celebrates a hero’s deeds usually based on history

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Allegory

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A story who’s literal plot deals entirely with symbols , having 2 different meanings. Real and symbolic. Ex Dantes inferno

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Terza Rima

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3 line stanzas with an iambic meter beat

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Dramatic Irony

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When the reader knows something the character doesn’t

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Situational irony

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Sharp contrast between what you think will happen and what actually happens

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Hubris

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Extreme pride

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Hamartia

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Tragic flaw of a character

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Anagnorisis

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Recognition of flaw and acceptance

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Peripeteia

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Reversal of circumstances

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Catharsis

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Feeling of pity or fear in audience

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Motif

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Theme or message of the story

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13
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Soliloquy

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Act of speaking ones thoughts when by oneself

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Aside

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Remark or comment made by a character in the play that is intended to be heard by the audience and not the other characters

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Alliteration

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The reoccurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

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16
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Epic hero

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Glorified, on a quest, ethical, strong

17
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Pardoner

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Greed kills. When 3 go to kill death but one poisions and the other two kill him but they all die.

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Woods

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Worldliness, earthly problems

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Animals

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Sin

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Hell

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Recognition of sin

21
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Dante

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Mankind

22
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Surface story of Dante

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On path to mountain but different animals are in his way

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Apparition 1

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Armored head. Beware of macduff

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Apparition 2

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Bloody child. No man born from. Woman can harm him

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Apparition 3

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Crowned child with tree. Macbeth to be defeated when Birnam wood marches

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