| A | B |
|---|
| Fickle | Characterized by erratic changeableness or instability |
| Soliloquy | A speech given by a character who is alone on stage |
| Aside | When a character onstage speaks to the audience and not the other characters |
| Monologue | A long speech given by a single character |
| Stage directions | Instructions for staging a play; not read aloud |
| Couplet | Two consecutive lines that rhyme |
| Drama | Literature meant to be performed onstage |
| Tragedy | A play in which the main character suffers a downfall |
| Tragic hero | The main character in a tragedy; he suffers a downfall due to a tragic flaw. |
| Tragic flaw | The flaw in the main character that brings about his/her downfall |
| Chorus | The group of people who come onstage to summarize what has happened and what will happen at the beginning or end of an act |
| Malevolent | Having or exhibiting ill will; wishing harm to others; malicious. |
| Sarcastic | Contemptuous or ironic in manner or wit; nasty or mocking in speech |
| Flippant | Marked by disrespectful levity or casualness; Irreverent |
| Impartial | unprejudiced; unbiased |
| Apothecary | Someone who prepares and sells medicines |
| Shrift | Confession to a priest |
| Sonnet | A fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter |
| Iambic pentamer | Lines of poetry consisting of five iambic feet ( an unstressed then a stressed syllable);there will be ten syllables per line |
| Abase | To humiliate or disgrace |
| Abhor | To hate or detest |
| Bard | A poet; often a singer |
| Boisterous | Loud and full of energy |
| Soliloquy | John was excited to have been cast as Hamlet. He hoped he would not be too nervous to stand alone on the stage and recite the famous ____________. |
| Impartial | Tom couldn’t be on the jury. There was no way he could be ____________ since the victim was his brother. |
| Abase | The bully takes great pleasure in trying to ____________ certain students. In reality |
| Drama | We couldn’t decide which ____________ to attend. We had heard that The Miracle Worker was good |
| Bard | Shakespeare is known as the ____________ of Avon. |
| Fickle | The ____________ young man kept changing his mind |
| Tragic heroes | Romeo and Hamlet are two famous ____________. |
| Abhors | Karen ____________ people who talk during movies. She wants to be able to hear the dialogue. |
| Sonnet | Shakespeare is just as famous for the 154 ____________ that he wrote as he is for his plays. It took great skill to write these poems. |
| Boisterous | Tammy’s ____________behavior resulted in her being asked to be quiet by the teacher. |
| Iambic pentameter | “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” is an example of ____________. |
| Apothecary | The knight visited the ____________ in order to purchase medicine for the sick squire. |
| Malevolent | When we moved into the old house |
| Tragic flaw | The main character’s ____________was his greed. It destroyed him. |
| Couplet | “True wit is nature to advantage dress’d;/ What oft was thought |
| Sarcastic | Bob’s ____________ remarks infuriated his girlfriend. She felt that he was mocking her. |
| Chorus | The ____________ came onto the stage and foreshadowed what would happen next. |
| Shrift | Julie is very devout. She goes to ____________every week confesses her sins. |
| Flippant | Brenda was being ____________ when she made that comment; unfortunately |
| Aside | Often in plays |
| Stage directions | The ____________indicated that the girl should enter from stage right. |
| Tragedy | I would like to see a comedy tonight. I’m not in the mood for a ____________; that would just make me cry. |
| Monologue | Billy was excited to be cast as Mercutio. He could envision himself standing with the other characters onstage as he delivered the famous Queen Mab ____________. |
| indignant | 25) Sam was ___ when he was accused of destroying school property. He was innocent! |
| bitter | 27) I felt ___ about losing to him. He didn’t work nearly as hard as I did. |
| hostile | 30) The explorer hoped that the natives would be friendly, not _____. |
| sentimental | 33) Since Sally is ____, she saves all the letters her boyfriend sends her. |
| metaphor | comparison that does not use like or as |
| how the story makes the reader feel | mood |
| the author's attitude | tone |
| repetition of vowel sounds | assonance |
| main point of the story; an idea seen throughout the story | theme |
| a play on words | pun |
| a two-word contradiction | oxymoron |
