| 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 |
| 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 ____________. |
| 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 ____________. |
| 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 |
| imagery | descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures for the reader |
| soliloquy | speech a character gives alone on stage |
| oxymoron | phrase or expression that is seemingly contradictory |
| Aside | a short speech heard by audience but not characters in the play |
| iambic pentameter | a meter in poetry consisting of five unrhymed lines-stressed and unstressed syllables |
| tragedy | a drama ending in catastrophe |
| simile | making comparisons between two subjects using like or as |
| metaphor | one thing is spoken of as if it were something else |
| personification | a non-human subject is given human traits |
| alliteration | repetition of first sound (Peter Piper picked) - repeated at least two times |
| Assonance | rhyming or harmony of vowels |
| Onomatopoeia | use of words or sounds to imitate sound effects |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables |
| monologue | a speech by one character in a play, story, or poem |
| soliloquy | a long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage |
| sonnet | a fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter |
| FICKLE | CHANGEABLE |
| VERSE | THE OPPOSITE OF PROSE; POETRY |
| PARADOX | A STATEMENT THAT SEEMS TO BE CONTRADICTORY BUT ACTUALLY PRESENTS A TRUTH |
| THEY HAVE EARS BUT HEAR NOT. | PARADOX |
| ALLUSION | A REFERENCE TO SOMETHING OUTSIDE THE WORK; USUALLY MYTHICAL, BIBLICAL OR HISTORICAL |
| FOIL | A CHARACTER WHO HELPS EMPHASIZE THE TRAITS OF ANOTHER CHARACTER THROUGH CONTRAST |
| CHASTE | DECENT; PURE |
| CONNOTATION | THE FEELINGS ASSOCIATED WITH A WORD |
| DENOTATION | DICTIONARY DEFINITION OF A WORD |
| CHASTE | ROSALINE HAS SWORN TO LIVE __ AND PURE. |
| CONTEMPTUOUS | THE __ AND SCORNFUL CHILD WAS PUNISHED. |
| OBJECTIVE | ZEUS COULD NOT MAKE AN __ AND IMPARTIAL DECISION ABOUT THE GOLDEN APPLE. |
| PARADOX | LOVE IS GENTLE AND ROUGH. |
| OXYMORON | SERIOUS VANITY; COLD FIRE |
| SHAKESPEARE IS THE __ OF AVON. | BARD |
| SONNETS ARE WRITTEN IN | IAMBIC PENTAMETER |
| SHAKESPEARE WROTE 154 OF THESE 14-LINE POEMS. | SONNETS |
| THE __ PREPARED MEDICINE FOR THE SICK CHILD. | APOTHECARY |
| IT WAS HARD TO BE __ WHEN ONE OF THE CONTESTANTS WAS HIS DAUGHTER. | IMPARTIAL |
| BOB'S ___ COMMENTS HURT ABBY'S FEELINGS. WHY WAS HE SO MOCKING? | SARCASTIC |
| BEING ___ AND MAKING JOKES WHEN YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SERIOUS CAN GET YOU IN TROUBLE. | FLIPPANT |
| THE ___ SPIRITS FRIGHTENED THE CHILDREN. | MALEVOLENT |
| THE __ CAME ONSTAGE AND SUMMARIZED THE PREVIOUS EVENTS. | CHORUS |
| YOUR BAD BEHAVIOR IN CLASS DOES NOTHING BUT __ YOURSELF. | ABASE |
| I ____ VEGETABLE SOUP. IT IS DISGUSTING. | ABHOR |
| TONY FORGOT ALL ABOUT JENNY WHEN HE SAW SANDY. HE'S SUCH A __ BOY. | FICKLE |
