Key words & info

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Cards (21)

What is a paradox?
A situation or statement that contains two opposite facts or characteristics
What is pathetic fallacy?
A type of personification where emotions are given to nature / the weather in order to create a certain mood or atmosphere
What is an oxymoron?
An expression containing two opposite words / ideas placed next to eachother
What is fate?
The development of events beyond a person's control, regarded as being determined by a supernatural / higher power
What is free will?
The capacity or ability to choose between different possible courses of action
What does subvert mean?
To go against
What does effeminate mean?
Feminine
What is a symbol?
An object that represents a bigger idea
What does hubris mean?
Excessive pride that leads to the downfall of the protagonist
What does hamartia mean?
A major flaw or trajic mistake that leads to the downfall of the protagonist
What does catharsis mean?
The realisation that the character's actions caused their own downfall. They also learn how to improve from that point.
What is a Shakespearean tragedy?
A plot that moves from order to disorder, but associated with the suffering and calamity of a tragic hero
What does Aristotle say a tragedy is?
A plot that moves from order to disorder and disaster
What is a motif?
A recurring element or idea in literature. This can be by using symbols and it is used to show a theme.
The hallucinations seen by Macbeth & Lady Macbeth are to do with the supernatural.
What do the witches represent?
Disorder
True or false: Macbeth completes regicide
True
True or false: Lady Macbeth is at the top of the Great Chain of Being
False
True or false: Lady Macbeth is a duplicitous character
True
True or false: Macbeth is a victim of fate
True
True or false: Shakesepare presents unnatural and disordered consequences to the disruption of the Divine Right of Kings
True