Key terms

• Traitor


  A person who betrays someone or something
• Coerce


  Persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats
• Nobility


  Person's noble character and behaviour

  People who have titles and belong to a high social class
• Usurp 


  To take a position of power using force when they have no right to do this
• Chastise


  Speaking to someone angrily or punish them for something wrong they have done
• Emasculate


  Losing your male role and identity
• Antagonist


  A person who actively opposes / is hostile towards someone or something
• Foil character


  A foil that exposes the faults of the protagonist by offering contrast
• Synecdoche


  A figure of speech in which a term for a part of something is used to refer to the whole
• Agitated


  A person that is worried or upset and show this in their behaviour, movements or voice
• Sacrilegious


  Violation or injurious treatment of a sacred object, site or person
• Equivocate


  Deliberately using vague language to deceive people or to avoid speaking the truth
• Treachery


  Behaviour or an action in which someone betrays their country or a person who trusts them
• Insecure


  Lack of confidence because you think you aren't good enough or aren't loved
• Supernatural


  Force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature
• Soliloquy


  An individual character in a play speaking their thoughts out loud to the audience
• Regicide


  Killing of a monarch
• Hamartia


  A fatal flaw in the main character
• Tanistry


  Succession based on a vote
• Hubris 


  Excessive pride or self-confidence
• Primogeniture


  The right of succession because of blood relations