Unit 6 vocab for english

• Hubris


  excessive pride or self-confidence
• Tragedy


  A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character
• Tragic hero


  A literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy
• Hamartia / Tragic Flaw


  a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine
• Dramatic Irony


  when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
• Catharsis


  a release of emotional tension
• Prologue


  introductory remarks in a speech, play or literary work, introductory action
• Chorus


  A group of characters in Greek tragedy (and in later forms of drama), who comment on the action of a play without participation in it.
• Ode


  a poem usually addressed to a particular person, object or event that has stimulated deep and noble feelings in the poet
• strophe and antistrophe


  two different divisions of the chorus representing two different voices. Strophe goes first and presents one side of an argument. Then the antistrophe speaks next and presents other ideas.
• Incoherent


  not able to be understood; nonsensical; mumbling
• Perplexity


  confusion; inability to deal with or understand something complicated or unaccountable
• Delusion


  a false belief, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders
• Supplication


  the action of asking or begging for something earnestly or humbly
• Highwaymen


  roadside robbers
• Proclamation


  an official public announcement
• Admiration


  respect and warm approval
• Edicts


  a command that is obeyed like a law; official orders
• Scheme


  an elaborate and systematic plan of action
• Oblivion


  (n.) forgetfulness, disregard; a state of being forgotten; an amnesty, general pardon
• Helmsman


  a person who steers a ship or boat
• Oracle


  a sacred shrine where a priest or priestess spoke for a god or goddess; someone who predicts the future
• Foundling


  infant found after being deserted by its unknown parents
• Baseness


  lack of moral principles; bad character; lacking higher qualities
• Prophecy


  A prediction of the future, made under divine inspiration.
• Inexorable


  impossible to stop or prevent; unrelenting, unavoidable
• Transcend


  to rise above or beyond, exceed
• Luminous


  bright; brilliant; glowing; giving off light; illuminating
• pan-


  (prefix) all, every, whole - pandemic (everyone is sick)
• hemi-


  (prefix) half - hemisphere (part of the globe)
• omni-


  (prefix) all - omnipotent (all knowing)
• -ped-


  (root) foot - pedestrian (person walking)
• -men-


  (root) to project - argument (verbal disagreement)
• -gno-


  (root) to know - ignorant (not knowing)
• -neo-


  (root) new, young - neonatal (relating to newborns)
• -ulent


  (suffix) full of - truculent (filled with aggression)
• -machy


  (suffix) battle, war, contest - psychomachy (conflict in the soul between good and evil)
• -path


  (suffix) suffering - empath (person highly attuned to other's suffering and needs)