| A | B |
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| Tragic Hero | A hero who has one character flaw and it leads to his destruction |
| Tragic flaw | A charcter trait that leads to the destruction of a hero |
| Paradox | An apparent contradiction that, upon further inspection, proves to be true |
| Dramatic Irony | When the reader or audience knows something that the characters do not |
| Verbal Irony | When the speaker says the opposite of what he means |
| Situational Irony | When the outcome or ending is the opposite of what you would expect |
| Comic Relief | A silly, slap-stick scene that follows a tragic scene |
| Soliloquy | When the actor is alone on stage and he states his thoughts aloud to the audience |
| Aside | When a character speaks his thoughts briefly while the other characters "pretend" they don't hear him |
| Iamb | A two-syllabel poetic foot that has an unstressed, followed by a stressed syllable |
| Blank Verse | Unrhymed Iambic Pentatmeter |
| Prose | everyday, informational writing |
| Kenning | A noun phrase meant to describe another noun, used in Anglo-Saxon Poetry |
| Alliteration | When the consonant sounds are repeated at the beginning of consecutive words |
| Couplet | shekespeare ends his scenes with this poetic device |
| Holinshed | The historian who wrote The History of England, Scotland, and Ireland; Shakepeare's Macbeth is based on this history |
| Foil | When two obects or events are placed side by side; its purpose is to emphasize the qualities of either object or event |
| Duncan | King of Scotland |
| MacDuff | "From his mother's womb, untimely ripped" |
| Macbeth | Thane of Glamis, Cawdor, and King |
| Ross | Nobleman who informed MacDuff of wife's murder |
| Porter | He provides comic relief with his drunken behavior |
| Lady Macbeth | Suffers from OCD, guilt, and commits suicide |
| Hecate | Queen of the Witches |
| Banquo | Macbeth's co-captain and best friend |
| Fleance | Banquo's son |
| Malcolm | Son of Duncan, joins King Edward of England to defeat Macbeth |
| Donalbain | Son of Duncan who fled to Ireland |
| A Helmeted Head | "Beware of MacDuff" |
| A bloody child | "No man born of woman can harm Macbeth" |
| A Baby King | "Macbeth will not be vanquished until the woods of Birnam come to Dunsinane" |
| Fife | MacDuff's Castle |
