Language

Question 1

Eponymous

Answer 1

The text and title character share a name

Question 2

Soliloquy

Answer 2

Character alone on stage speaking their thoughts aloud

Question 3

Hamartia

Answer 3

Fatal flaw which leads to the character’s downfall

Question 4

Foil

Answer 4

Character that relates to the protagonists but creates a contrast with their actions

Question 5

Anagnorisis

Answer 5

The point in s play, novel etc., in which a principal character recognises or discovers another character’s true identity or true nature of their own circumstances

Eg: when Macbeth realises the full extent of his guilt and the consequences of his actions

Question 6

Peripeteia

Answer 6

A sudden reversal of fortune or a turning point in the tragic hero’s path

Question 7

Equivocate

Answer 7

Use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself (half-truths)

Question 8

Bathos

Answer 8

a sudden and often abrupt anticlimax or a shift from a serious or elevated tone to something trivial pr ridiculous

Question 9

Dramatic irony

Answer 9

When the audience knows something the character’s don’t

Question 10

Blank verse

Answer 10

A form of poetry that uses unrhymed iambic pentameter. - style play is primarily written

Question 11

Chiasmus

Answer 11

words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order.
- fair is foul and foul is fair

Question 12

Despot

Answer 12

Contolling and tyrannical

Question 13

Diabolical

Answer 13

Characteristics of absolute evil

Question 14

Nihilism

Answer 14

A philosophy that rejects the existence of inherent, meaning, purpose, or value in life and existence, often associated with a belief in the futility of traditional values and beliefs.

Question 15

Dichotomy

Answer 15

Involving two completely opposing ideas or things