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  • Peripetia
    a sudden change in circumstances or a reversal of fortune, often serving as a turning point in a story
  • Usurpation
    the act of taking control of something without having the right to, especially of a position of power
  • Sigmund Freuds theory
    This is ID, ego and superego. ID = the pleasure seeking, impulsive, pain avoiding part of the personality usually subconscious.
    Ego = the standing judge point which makes decisions between superego and ID.
    superego = the morally correct side of the personality.
  • Hamartia
    A fatal flaw leading to ones downfall
  • Hubris
    Excessive pride
  • Zeolotry
    Extreme obsession/devotion to something.
  • Avaricious
    Having a greed for extreme wealth and materialism
  • duplicitious
    decietful / dualitied
  • Malevolant
    Evil
  • lexis
    refers to the vocabulary used
  • Diction
    choice of words
  • denouement: the final part of a play, film, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved
  • Rapport
    Personl connection
  • Pertinently
    (and more importantly....)
    and more pertinently...
    She wondered how she would bear the burden of which he brought, and more pertinently, the extent of which her decaying mind would shard.
  • Arduous
    something tiring and strenuous
  • dregs
    the most worthless part or parts of something
  • synaxis
    a religious assembly for worship
  • Machiavellian
    Total lack of scruples "the end justifies the means"
    based on irl diplomat machiavelli