vocab quiz r&j Flashcards

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Soliloquy

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Length speech in which a character-usually alone to the audience

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Aside

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A brief remark by a character revealing thoughts or feelings to the audience unheard by others

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Monologue

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A lengthy speech except its addressed to others on stage not the audience

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4
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Allusions

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References or well known people places or event from myths or literature

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5
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Gallant

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Brave and noble

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Fray

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Noisy fight

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Martial

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Military

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Exile

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Banish

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Eloquence

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speech that is vivid , forceful, graceful, and persuasive

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10
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Fickle

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Changeable

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Equivocate

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To technically tell the truth while understand that you’ll be misunderstood and you’ll be misunderstood and maybe even like it

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Comic Relief

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A technique that is used to interrupt a serious part of a literary work by adding a humorous character in a situation

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13
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Dramatic Irony

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A contradiction between what a character thinks or says and what the audience or reader knows to be true

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14
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Pensive

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thinking deeply or seriously

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15
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Vial

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Small bottle containing medicine or other liquid

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Enjoined

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Wayward

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Headstrong, willfull

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Dismal

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Causing gloom or misery

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Loathsome

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Disgusting

20
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Pilgrimage

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Long journey often for religious purposes

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Tragedy

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A drama in which the central character who is usually the noble stature meets with disaster or great misfortune

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Remnants

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Remaining or persons or things

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Penury

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extreme poverty

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Haughty

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sepulcher
tomb
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Ambiguities
statements or event whose meanings are unclear
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scourge
whip or other instrument for inflicting punishment