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  • Appositive? 

    words or phrases that are used to avoijd repetition of saying the name.
  • Sequence marker?
    First, next
  • Discource marker?
    However, although
  • Superlative?
    Highest degree of something
  • What does a good paragraph need?
    It needs Topic Scentance/concluding scentance/sequence and discourse markers/integrating quotes/modal verbs/reader response verbs/commentary words/tonal language/appositive/comparative and superlative language/good terminology.
  • Playright?
    Person who writes plays.
  • Hamartia
    Fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a character
  • Hubris
    Excessive self confidence
  • Rhetoric
    Act of persuasion
  • What is the narrative ark? 

    Exposition rising action climax falling action denouement
  • Archetype
    Typical example of something
  • Monologue
    Long speech by one person during a conversation
  • Soliloquy
    The act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by themself
  • Foil
    A character that contrasts to another character to emphasise the difference.
  • Dramatic irony
    The audience knows something the characters don't.
  • Catalyst
    Something(character or event) that speeds up something
  • Superlative
    Highest quality of degree of something.
  • Semantic field
    Words that are linked categorically.
  • Hamartia
    Fatal flaw of a character
  • Context
    Political, social, historical etc influence of a text
  • Destiny
    Events that will happen to a particular person in the future.
  • Fate
    Something that will happen to someone that is out of there control.
  • Emasculate
    Remove male qualities from a man
  • Power
    The ability to to do something or act in a particular way
  • Control
    The power to influence people's behaviour
  • Regicide
    Killing the king
  • Who is macbeth?
    Thane of cawdor, (was thane of glamis) king of scotland
  • Wife of Macbeth?
    Lady macbeth
  • Banquo
    General in the army, friend of macbeth
  • Banquo son?
    Fleance
  • Noblemen of scotland

    Macduff
  • Previous king?
    Duncan
  • Inciting incident
    A event that occurs in the beggining of the story that sets the story in another direction.
  • Comparative
    Comparing 2 things with one another by similarity or difference.
  • Connotation
    Words that come to mind when a word is mentioned.
  • Collective pronouns
    Pronouns used for a group of people
  • Anaphora
    Use of a word referring back to a word used earlier in another text to avoid yesterday
  • Emotive language
    Certain words used to make the audience amit a emotional response
  • Imperative verbs
    Command verbs
  • Hyperbole
    Exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally