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Antagonist

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Opposes the hero

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Antithesis

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Opposition, used of contrast can sharpen ideas

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Asyndeton

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Lost separated by commas, semi colons rather than conjunctions

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Blank verse

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Citizens

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Collective term for people of nations, states or society’s

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Caesura

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Break or pause in line of verse

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Catharsis

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Powerful emotions like pity and fear are purged through watching a tragic play

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Catholicism

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Roman Catholic Church, led by Pope

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Couplet

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Pairs/repetition in lines

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Enlightenment

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1400-1700:beginning of modernity

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Elizabethan era

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Reign of queen elizabeth

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End stopped lines

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Pause at the end of a line of verse

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Enjambement

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Running on lines

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Hamartia

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Fatal flaw

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Freudian

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With reference to the psychoanalytic theories of Freud

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Hierarchy

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System where things/people are ranked according to status or authority

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Humanist

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Man as focus, physical worldly life prioritised over spiritual or the supernatural

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4 humors

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An excess or deficiency of any of the four bodily fluids results in an imbalance, causing physical disorder

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Iambic pentameter

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10 syllable line of alternate stressed syllables

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Imagery

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Language to represent objects, actions, feelings, thoughts, ideas

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In media res

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In the middle of things

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Introspection

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Examination of ones thoughts and feelings

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Jacobean

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Reign of james I

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Machiavellian

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Cunning, scheming or unscrupulous, especially in politics

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Malcontent
Figure who is dissatisfied, rebellious, defined by difference from others
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Meta theatre
Plays that refer back to themselves, a play within a play
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Metre
Pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables
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Misogyny
Person who hates or doesn’t trust women
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Patriarchal
A social system in which gives males primary power
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Polysynditon
Repetition of conjunctions in a list
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Prose
Direct form of language spoken or written
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Protagonist
The first actor, originally/ equivalent to a hero/central character
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Protestant
A member of western Christian churches, separate from the RC church
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Pun
Play on words
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Renaissance
1400-1600 rebirth in interest in the culture of Ancient Greece and Rome
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Secular
Not concerned with religious or spiritual matters
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Senecan tragedy
Dramas influenced by Seneca, revenge, ghosts, disaster, blood
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Sensationalist
Presentation of stories to provoke excitement at the expense of accuracy
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Soliloquy
Where a character alone on stage expresses inner thoughts and feelings
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Stichomythia
Dialogue of alternating single lines usually in drama
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Synecdoche
Figure of speech where a part represents the whole
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Transgression
Act that goes against a rule, law, conduct
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Transition
Going through a period of change
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Bureaucratic speech
Speak of kings/royalty
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Word choice
‘register'. It refers to an author's choice of language. Authors may use words commonly associated with a certain subject, experience or state of mind.
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Tone
Creates the mood
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Symbolism
Objects colours or sounds etc which work as symbols - can give insight to themes
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Simile
Establishes a similarity between two things
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Rhythm
Beats or metre within verse
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Personification
Giving a non human object human atributes
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Pathos
Language which evokes feelings of pity or sorrow
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Etaphor
Imply a figurative resemblance between two things
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Irony
When words imply the oppressive of what they mean
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Hyperbole
Exaggerating for a purpose
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Dissonance
Discordant combinations of sounds
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Colloquial language
Informal language

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