key terms

• noble= morally good or of high power
• pathos= pity and sympathy for extreme suffering
• hamartia= lack of knowledge or error of ignorance
• catharsis= emotional purging

  pity and fear as conflicting emotions
• peripeteia= sudden reversal of fortune
• hubris= excessive pride
• anognorisis= moment of realisation of truth
• poetic justice= when good things happen to good character and bad things happen to bad characters
• ominous= the worrying impression that something unpleasant is going to happen
• primogeniture= 1st born son inherits the title and property of the family
• blank verse= 14 lines of iambic pentameter, no rhyme scheme
• iambic pentameter= unstressed stressed
• hendiadys= doubling of adjectives
• duplicity/duplicitous= to be deceitful
• filial avenger= a son who is taking revenge
• antithesis= two conflicting words or ideas near each other
• introspective= is the process of examining one's own thoughts, ideas and feelings
• lionise= to idolise or worship