Hubris - Excessive pride, Hamartia - The hero's tragic flaw, Peripeteia - A sudden reversal of fortune, Anagnorisis - When the protagonist realises their own circumstances, Catharsis - A release of emotions-often pity or fear, Foil - A character that contrasts with another, Foreshadowing - A hint at future events, Motif - A repeated image (blood/hands are two examples), Oxymoron - An extreme contrast, Stichomythia - When two characters speak in turn very quickly, Antagonist - An adversary, Synecdoche - To substitute one word for another (the crown, for example), Imperative - A command, Declarative - A statement, Characterisation - The creation of a fictional character, Pathetic fallacy - Giving human qualities to the weather, Protagonist - The main character, Simile - Comparing two things using like or as, Metaphor - Describing something as though it is something else, Trochaic Meter - A trochee is a long syllable, or stressed syllable, followed by a short, unstressed one, Iambic pentameter - Blank verse-Shakespeare's usual style, Dramatic irony - When the audience knows more than the characters, Tragic hero - A courageous protagonist that brings about their own downfall, Exclamatory - A sentence that shows extreme emotion so uses exclamation marks, Euphemism - Understatement-i.e. calling murder 'business', Chiasmus - The witches; 'Fair is foul, and foul is fair' , Soliloquy - A character speaking alone on stage, Chronology - The order of events, Tragedy - A branch of drama that deals with serious/terrible events, Setting - The time and place of a play,

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