vocab test
the vocab test is on Wednesday November 19
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- shibboleths
- common saying or slogan
- ethos
- the spirit of a culture or era
- sentient
- endowed with feeling, animate
- allusion
- a reference to something outside the text
- impugning
- to attack as false or wrong
- Iam
- a metrical foot - one unstressed, one stressed "alone"
- evocation
- a recreation of something not present
- anticlimax
- falling off in intensity after a serious high point
- epiphany
- divine manifestation
- psychopath
- someone with an antisocial personality disorder, a person with no conscience
- antagonist
- opponent of the main character
- iambic pentameter
- 5 iambic feet
- eugenics
- the study of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding
- catalyst
- a cause of an important event
- Aristotelian
- thoughts that are commonsensical
- bard
- poet, Celtic storyteller who reinforced culture
- adversary
- an opponent or enemy
- Jacobean
- later part of Shakespeare's career
- Harbinger
- foreshadows future events
- soliloquy
- monologue preformed alone on stage
- euphoria
- a feeling of great elation
- polymath
- a person of great and varied learning
- dramatic irony
- when the audience has information the character lacks
- hedonic
- devoted to pleasure
- Elizabethan
- period of literature characterized by optimism and national pride
- elixir
- a cure all
- blank verse
- un-rhymed iambic pentameter
- alienate
- to cause to become unfriendly
- statis
- someone who is good with numbers
- Hamartia
- a characters flaw that leads to his downfall
- psychotropics
- drugs used in the aid of mental illnesses
- congruent
- agreeing
- nirvana
- paradise or enlightenment
- insidious
- slowly becoming harmful
- genome
- set of chromosomes
- thither
- on the farther side of the person who is speaking
- equivocation
- open to more than one interpretation
- chorus
- observers who comment on the play, reflect views of society
- conflict
- problem
- hubris
- greek: excessive pride