macbeth vocabulary
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- alliteration
- the repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in strssed syllables
- comic relief
- an amusing scene, incident, or speech introduced into serious or tragic elements, as in a play, in order to provide temporary relief from tensio, or to intensify the dramatic action.
- universal appeal
- something that has a wide appeal to a large number of people
- irony
- the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.
- iambic pentameter
- a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five unstressed syllables and five stressed syllables.
- meter
- the measured arrangment of words in poetry, as by accentual rhythm, syllabic quantity, or the number of syllables in a line.
- imagery
- the formation of mental images, figiures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively.
- protagonist
- the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
- catastrophe
- the point at which the circumstances overcome the central motive, introducing the close or conclusion.
- antagonist
- the adversary of the hero or protagonist of a drama or other literary work.
- foreshadowing
- to present an indication or suggestion of beforehand.
- prophesy
- to foretell or predict.
- symbolism
- the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.
- blank verse
- verse consisting of unrhymed lines, usually of iambic pentameter.
- consonance
- repetition of constinents.
- couplet
- a unit of verse consisting of two successive lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming a complete thought or syntactic unit.
- tragedy
- a dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically that of a great person destined through a flaw of character or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate or society, downfall or destruction.
- personifcation
- the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or absract notions.
- metaphor
- comparison of two unlike things
- climax
- the highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something.
- equivocation
- an equivocal, ambiguous expression.
- setting
- the time, place, and circumstances in which a marrative, drama, or film takes place.
- simile
- a figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are sompared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as.
- paradox
- a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
- assonance
- the repetitionof similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words.
- soliloquy
- an utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present.
- tragic hero
- a literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external foces, brings on a tragedy.
- theme
- central idea of the story.
- rhyme
- a poen or peice of verse having such correspondence.
- aside
- a part of an actors lines supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intended only for the audience.