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What is machismo?

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strong or aggressive masculine pride. E.g Tybalt

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What is antithesist?

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a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else. E.g Tybalt, Benvolio

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What is iambic pentameter?

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Iambic pentameter is a rhythm structure, used most commonly in poetry, that combines unstressed syllables and stressed syllables in groups of five. E.g the prologue

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What is a sonnet

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A fourteen-line poem e.g the prologue

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What is shared lines?

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

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What is prose?

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Written or spoken language in its ordinary form

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What is verse?

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Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme

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What is 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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What is free will?

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The power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one’s own discretion.

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What is honour?

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High respect or great esteem

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What is a society?

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People living together in a more or less ordered community.

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What is a 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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What is a primogeniture?

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The firstborn child

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What is a feud?

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Quarrel or dispute

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What is impetuous?

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Acting or done quickly and without thought or care.

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What is emotional?

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Relating to a person’s emotions.

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What is volatile?

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Something that can change rapidly or unexpectedly. E.g Romeo loving Rosalind then Juliet

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What is courtly love?

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Love between a knight and a married noblewoman

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What is a Greek tragedy

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a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character.

The play of Romeo and Juilet is a very Tragic

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What is tragic protagonists

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A tragic protagonists is the main character of a tradegy.

Romeo and Juilet are the tragic protagonists

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What is an antagonist?

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a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.

Tybalt is the antagonist

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What is an extended metaphor

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An extended metaphor is a version of metaphor that extends over the course of multiple lines, paragraphs, or stanzas of prose or poetry.

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What is a soliloquy?

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an act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play

Romeo has a soliloquy and only main people often have a soliloquy.

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What is an 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.

It is when you are speaking to someone close to you but the other people in the set can’t hear it and the audience can.

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What is hubris?

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excessive pride or self-confidence

For instance tybalt is a character whith excessive pride and self confidence so he has hubris

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What is hamartia?

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

Romeo’s hamartia is being the son of the enemy family to Juilet

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What is catharsis?

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the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.

Romeo had Catharsis when in the search for Juilet

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What is dramatic irony?

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the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

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What is a monologue?

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a long speech by one actor in a play or film, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast programme

Prince Escalus gave a monolgue to Capulets and Montague.

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What is unrequited love?

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When you love someone but they don’t love you back

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What is a rhyming couplet?

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

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What is a protagonist?

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The leading character or one of the major characters in a play, film, novel ect.

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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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Ingenuous

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Innocent or unsuspecting

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