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Twelfth Night Vocab
Content Vocabulary (Acts 1-5) and Drama Words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Surfeit | Filling or satisfying |
| Naught | Nothing |
| Abatement | Stopping |
| Pestilence | Purified the air of everything infectious |
| Brine | Tears |
| Elysium | Greek heaven |
| Perchance | Perhaps, possibly, by chance, through good luck |
| Provident | Lucky |
| Prattle | Gossip |
| Abjured | Avoided the sight of men |
| Eunuch | A boy who is not allowed to be a man |
| Excepted | Not included |
| Prodigal | Wastrel, spendthrift; wastes, spends too much |
| Prudent | Careful, wise or practical |
| Accost | Approach |
| Porquoi | Why |
| Discourse | Speech; conversation |
| Prosper | To make games; successfully, grow wealthy |
| Malignancy | Evil influencee |
| Distemper | Disturb, damage |
| Recompense | Repayment |
| Extravagancy | Wastefulness; no more than wanderinng |
| Publish | Proclaim |
| Peevishly | Annoyed or irritated or in a bad mood |
| Cunning | Craftiness |
| Churlish | Rude; stengy |
| Frailty | Weakness |
| Thriftless | Useless, fruitless |
| Dram | Tiniest bit |
| Scruple | Doubt |
| Obstacle | Something that gets in the way |
| Incredulous | Incredible |
| Sanctify | Make holy |
| Favor | Face, prefer, if you please |
| Venerable | Command respectful |
| Unsafe | Unreliable, untrustworthy |
| Impetuosity | Impulsive, or given into rash action |
| Bounty | Treasure or generosity |
| Scatheful | Harmful |
| Adverse | Hostile |
| Fulsome | Disgusting |
| Unauspicious | Unfavorable |
| Beguiled | Tricked, cheated, deceived |
| Dissembling | Lying, hypocritical |
| Epistles | Letters |
| Notorious | Famous in a bad way |
| Epiphany | Sudden realization; the revelation of Christ that the wisemen found baby jesus |
| Theme | Message or life lesson in a story |
| Comedy | Ends with people happily married |
| Tragedy | Ends with main characters dying |
| History | True stories about real people or events that happened in the past (kings and queens) |
| Poetic Language | Lines; often has rhyme, rhythm, and figures of speech |
| Rhyme | Words that share the same endings that occur in lines |
| meter | Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Images | When words bring up pictures in your mind |
| Act | One of the five major parts of a play |
| Scene | Part of an act with different groups of people |
| Stage | A platform where actors perform |
| Pit | Where the poor people stand to watch the play; lower than the stage |
| Gallery | A roofed area at the back of the theater where the nobles sit |
| Dramatic irony | A character does not know something that the audience knows |
| Aside | A short comment by a character meant to be heard only by the audience |
| Monologue | A long speech by one character to an audience on stage |
| Dialogue | Two characters talking to each other |
| soliloquy | A long speech by one character that no one on stage hears |
| lyrics | Words to a song |
| costumes | Clothing people wear; to signify a character's status or time period |
| props | Objects characters need to move the action forward |
| lighting | Set the mood; tell difference between acts; highlight an area of the stage |
| scenery | An essential |
| rhetorical (trick) | A trick that speakers use to persuade others to do something they may not otherwise do |
| antithesis | The balancing of opposites |
| allusion | Reference to something from history or literature that the audience should know or is familiar to |
| pun | A play on homonyms |
| wordplay | Any other play on words |
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