Fickle

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Fickle

• Characterized by erratic changeableness or
  instability, especially with regard to affections
  or attachments capricious.

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Soliloquy

• A speech given by a character who is alone on
  stage

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Aside

• When a character onstage speaks to the audience
  and not the other characters

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Monologue

• A long speech given by a single character

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Stage directions

• Instructions for staging a play not read aloud

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Couplet

• Two consecutive lines that rhyme

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Drama

• Literature meant to be performed onstage

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Tragedy

• A play in which the main character suffers a
  downfall

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Tragic hero

• The main character in a tragedy he suffers a
  downfall due to a tragic flaw.

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Tragic flaw

• The flaw in the main character that brings about
  his/her downfall

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Chorus

• The group of people who come onstage to summarize
  what has happened and what will happen at the
  beginning or end of an act

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Benevolent

• Characterized by concern for others and/or good
  works

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Malevolent

• Having or exhibiting ill will wishing harm to
  others malicious.

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Sarcastic

• Contemptuous or ironic in manner or wit
• Nasty or mocking in speech

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Flippant

• Marked by disrespectful levity or casualness
• Irreverent

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Impartial

• Unprejudiced
• Unbiased

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Apothecary

• Someone who prepares and sells medicines

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Shrift

• Confession to a priest

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Sonnet

• A fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter

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Iambic pentameter

• Lines of poetry consisting of five iambic feet (
  an unstressed then a stressed syllable)
• There will be 10 syllables per line.