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Words Flashcards

1
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Tragic protagonists

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A tragic hero

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Antagonist

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A person who is hostile

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Extended metaphor

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A version of metaphor that extends over the course of many lines

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Soliloquy

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A monologue that is adressed to ones self

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Aside

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A passage in aplay that is only for the audience to hear and the other characters cant here

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Hubris

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Excessive pride and confidence

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Dramatic irony

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Occurs when the audience knows something the character doesnt

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Monologue

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A single character says a long speech

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Unrequited love

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Love that is unreturned like romeo and rosaline

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Volatile

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Can change quickly into something for the worse

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Antithesis

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The direct opposite of someone else or something, benvolio and tybalt are antithesis

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12
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Iambic pentameter

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The rythm of a line

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13
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Sonnet

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A fourteen line poem using iambic pentameter

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14
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Shared lines

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Were two or more characters share a line using iambic verses

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15
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Rhyming couplet

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Where two succesive lines rhyme

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Protagonist

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The main character in a story who affects what happens

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Prose

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The ordinary people use in speaking and writing

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Verse

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Writing arranged with a metrical rythm

19
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Fate

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The development of life out of a persons control

20
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Free will

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The ability to choose amd do what you want

21
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Honour

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Regard with great respect

22
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Society

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The amount of people living together in a community

23
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Patriarchy

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Men control most of everything and have more power over women

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Primogeniture

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Being the first born child

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Feud

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A prolonged and bitter quarrel or dispute

26
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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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Anarchic

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Unruly and choatic

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Liberal

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Willing to respect or accept behaviour or opinions different from ones own; open to new ideas

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Impulsive

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Someone who acts on a whim without thinking

30
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Mercurial

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Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind

31
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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

33
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Tempestuous

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Someone who is unpredictable and has many conflicting emotions

34
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Quixotic

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Extremely idealistic unrealist and impractical

35
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Challenging conventions

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Going against what is perceived as the norm

36
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Ingenuous

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Innocent and unsuspected

37
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Melancholic

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A feeling of sadness, typically with no cause

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Masculinity

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Qualities or attributes regarded as charecteristic of men

39
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Impetuous

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Acting auickly or carelessly

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