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supernatural grade 9 vocab Flashcards

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the motif of supernatural as..

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OMNIPOTENT

sorcery meaning to have unlimited power over Macbeth

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starting sentence…

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In Shakespeare’s 1606 eponymous tragedy of Macbeth

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how do the witches speak?

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TROCHAIC TETRAMETER

PARADOXICAL CHIASMUS

FULL RHYME

CHORAL SPEECH

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4
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structure of the play vocab?

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EXPOSITION - first part of the plot

JACOBEAN AUDIENCE

FOREBODING

INCITING ACTION

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killing of a king?

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REGICIDE

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Macbeth vs Banquo?

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attitudes as evolving standpoints shaped by their moral endurance against the trials of ‘human kindness’

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devices in witches prophecies?

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OXYMORONIC PHRASE - ‘greater’ , ‘lesser’

EQUIVOCATION used here, presenting witchcraft as deceitful (SPIRITUAL MALPRACTICE)

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