Set: Macbeth Vocabulary Terms

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Term Definition
Aside A part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intended only for the audience.
Soliliquy An utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present (often used as a device in drama to disclose a character's innermost thoughts): Hamlet's soliloquy begins with “To be or not to be.”
Blank Verse Unrhymed verse, esp. the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse.
Couplet A pair of successive lines of verse, esp. a pair that rhymes and are of the same length
Iambic Pentameter A common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable
Rhyme Identity in sound of some part, esp. the end, of words or lines of verse.
Metaphor A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.”
Imagrey The formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively: the dim imagery of a dream.
Symbolism The formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively: the dim imagery of a dream.
Antagonist The adversary of the hero or protagonist of a drama or other literary work: Iago is the antagonist of Othello.
Protagonist The leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
Iorny The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.
Tragedy A dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically that a freat
Climax The highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something
Denouement/Catastrophe The final resolution of the intricacies of a plot, as of a drama or novel
Equivocation The use of equivocal or ambiguous expressions, esp. in order to mislead or hedge; prevarication.
Paradox A statement or proposition that seems self contradictory or absurb but in reality expresses a possible truth
Tragic Hero A literary character to makes an error of judgement or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy.
Alliteration The commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group (consonantal alliteration) as in from stem to stern, or with a vowel sound that may differ from syllable to syllable (vocal alliteration) as in each to all
Assonance Resemblance of sounds
Theme The act of a person or thing that sets, time place, ircumstance
Setting The act of a person or thing that sets, time place, ircumstance
Prophesy To foretell or predict
Meter The rhythmic element as measured by division into parts of equal time value
Personification The attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions.
Consonance Accord or agreement
Foreshadowing The act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand
Simile A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, as in "she is like a rose."
Ambivalence Undercainty or indecisiveness as to which course to follow
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