macbeth act 1; vocab and grammar Flashcards
drama in which a series of actions leads to the downfall of the main character
tragedy
the main character in a tragedy
tragic hero
What three characteristics must a tragic hero possess? (HTS) *
- high social rank
- tragic flaw that leads to a downfall
- suffer of ruin or death, but facing this downfall with courage and dignity
when the audience knows something a character doesn’t know
dramatic irony
speech given by a character alone on stage that reveals private thoughts, feelings, and motivations *
soliloquy
a character’s remark, either to the audience or to another character, that no one else on stage is supposed to hear. *
aside
What do soliloquies and asides have in common?
They reveal a character’s secret thoughts and motivations.
the use of contrasting ideas within a sentence for effect *
antithesis
the use of questions that require no answer to make the speaker’s rightness seem self evident
rhetorical questions
the repetition of grammatical structures to express ideas that are related or of equal importance
parallelism
use of words and phrases more than once to emphasize ideas
repetition
What 3 characteristics does a drama have? (ITR)
- intent to be performed before an audience
- telling a story with a plot, characters, setting, conflict, and themes
- reliance on stage directions, speaker tags, and dialogue
characters that provide a striking contrast to another character *
character foils
thing that shows what others think about a character
dialogue
substitution of something related to the subject for the subject itself
metonymy
