Shake. Vocab
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- chastisment
- scolding; condemnation
- Crisis
- turning point, is the point in the plot where something decisive happens to determine the future course of events and the eventual working out of the conflict
- visage
- face; appearance
- infirmity
- sickness; weakness
- redress
- right a wrong; rectify
- cull
- pick; select
- corporal
- having to do with the body
- bequeath
- hand down; pass on
- construe
- analyze; interpret
- interpose
- place or come between
- Aside
- a statement intended to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters on the stage
- Simile
- a comparison using like or as
- Tragic Flaw
- a personal weakness taht brings about the fall of a character
- reverence
- feeling of respect
- puissant
- strong; powerful
- Monologue
- long speeches given by actors
- cogitation
- thought
- expound
- explain; give more information about
- Blank Verse
- unrhymed iambic pentameter
- Denoument
- any material in a plot that follows the resolution and ties up loose ends
- portentous
- ominous; foreboding; predictive
- constancy
- faithfulness; resolve; unchangeableness
- ensign
- flag; banner
- apparition
- ghost
- engender
- give birth to; produce
- cur
- dog; mongrel
- Motif
- any element that occurs in one or more works of literature
- disconsolate
- unhappy; not to be confronted
- entreat
- implore; strongly request
- Tragedy
- a drama that tells the story of the fall of a person of high status
- commonwealth
- republic
- fawn
- show excessive friendliness; flatter
- Catastrophe
- the event that marks the ultimate fall of the central character
- Irony
- occus when a statement is made that implies its opposite
- Metaphor
- a comparison of two seemingly unlike things
- inter
- bury
- Soliloquy
- a speech given by a lone character on stage
- conjointly
- in a joined together manner
- presage
- foretell; warn