| A | B |
|---|
| archetype | sometrhing that can be recognized |
| aside | actor talking to audience with others on stage |
| Analects | Confusious' writtings |
| antagonist | goes against protaganist |
| Buddism | religon of South East Asia |
| blank verse | five beats per line |
| alliteration | repeating beginning sounds |
| catharsis | release of feelings |
| covenant | agreement |
| conflict | problem/obsticle |
| climax | highest point of action |
| caste | rigid social class |
| exposistion | beginning of a story |
| Ying and Yang | opposite |
| catastrophe | death of a main character |
| couplet | two lines thay rhyme at the end |
| didactic | stories to teach a lesson |
| deus ex machina | last minute rescue |
| dharma | unique role |
| dynamic | change |
| epic hero | person of great status who geos through a struggle |
| epic | long work of literature |
| hubris | the worst sin - excessive pride |
| hero | main character |
| irony | opposite of what is thought to happen |
| metaphor | comparing two unlike things |
| pastoral | past story about the country |
| persona | author pretends to be another role |
| parallelism | two line have the same idea in different words |
| falling action | protagonist starts to lose |
| quest | journey to find something |
| rising action | protagonist is winning |
| resolution | solution to the conflict |
| Gunpowder Plot | attempt to blow up the parellament in 1605 |
| soliloquy | the actor alone on stage |
| Sphinx | monster with the riddle |
| King James | Shakespeare's monarch |
| tragedy | serious play, main character loses |
| theme | main thing learned |
| Globe | Shakespeare's theater |
| Taoism | Lao Tzu nature/individual |
| lavish | expensive; a lot |
| rapt | lost in thought |
| metaphysical | supernatural |
| valor | courage |
| husbandry | economy |
| equivocator | liar |
| adage | story |
| palpable | touchable |
| surfeited | over flowing, too much |
| sacrilegous | disrespectful to something holy |
| scruples | consious |
| oracles | truth tellers |
| jocound | happy |
| pernicious | serious |
| resolute | detirmined |
| guru | spiritual leader in India |
