English 9

• Gothic Fiction is a literary genre that began in the late eighteeth century with distinctive characteristics from other genres.
• Southern Gothic Fiction refers to the subgenre of gothic fiction in American literature that takes place in South America.
• Southern Gothic Fiction follows a dark humor that follows the idea of exposing the problems of society through the development of complex characters.
• Southern Gothic Fiction often explores the behaviors of people and the social order of the South.
• Southern Gothic Fiction has a disturbing plot.
• Southern Gothic Fiction sets in the south that features a plantation, old slave quarters or broken downtowns.
• In Southern Gothic Fiction, characters are usually complex, and many of them are mentally unstable.
• spinster means an unmarried woman, typically older beyond the usual age of marriage.
• yankee means a person who lives in or is from the US.
• eccentric means a person's behavior of being unconventional and slightly strange.
• squarish means having a shape that is almost like a square.
• Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States.
• buccaneer means a pirate, originally off the Spanish American coasts.
• ostentatious means characterized by vulgar or pretentious display.
• hippopotamus means an animal under the water horse family.
• apartheid means separating or setting apart.
• colossal means extremely large.
• Mystery Plays are the dramatization of the Bible stories especially the life and death of Jesus Christ in churches.
• The York Mystery Plays composed of forty-eight mystery plays or pageants that retell stories from the creation to the last judgement days.
• Tragedy Plays are a type of drama in which the major characters undergo a morally significant struggle that ends disastrously.
• The purpose of Tragedy Play is to arouse the emotions of pity and fear in the audience.
• The Two Important Factors in Tragedy are The Role of Chance and Hero's Tragic Flaw.
• Macbeth is a brave Scottish general who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day, he will become the King of Scotland.
• Macbeth is consumed by ambition and sparred to action by his wife.
• Macbeth murders King Duncan and soon becomes a tyrannical ruler.
• Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespeare and was first played/performed on stage in 1606.
• gourmet means a person devoted to refined sensous enjoyment in food or drink.
• maelstrom means a powerful circular current of water.
• mustache means an unshaved growth of hair in the upper lip.
• niche means a position particularly well-suited to the person who occupies it.
• oligarchy means a political system governed by a few people.
• anemone means marina polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings or tentacles.
• bureaucracy means a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with non-elective officers.
• cache means a hidden storage space.
• cyanosis means a bluish discoloration of the skin and mucous membrane.
• epistemology means the philosophical theory of knowledge.
• Lady Macbeth is even more ambitious and ruthless than her husband, Macbeth.
• Lady Macbeth plotted to murder King Duncan upon hearing the three witches' prophecy.
• Macduff is the Lord of Fife.
• Macduff was the first to discover King Duncan's dead body and never believed that it was the servant who killed him.