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12th night words
Kendall Demirjian
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Surfeit | to fill |
| Naught | nothing |
| Abatement | stoping |
| Destilence | purified the air of everything infectious |
| Brine | salt water or tears |
| Elyslium | where the blessed go after death |
| Perchance | perhaps, possibly |
| Provident | lucky |
| Prattle | gossip |
| Abjured | avoided |
| Eunuch | a neutered male; a male soprano |
| Excepted | not included; all but |
| Prodigal | someone who wastes or spends too much |
| prudent | careful, wise or practical |
| Accost | to approach |
| Pourquoi | why |
| Discourse | speech, conversation |
| Prosper | successful, grow wealthily |
| Malignancy | evil influence |
| Distemper | disturb, damage |
| Recompense | repayment |
| Extravagancy | wasteful, no more then wandering |
| Publish | proclaim |
| Peevishly | annoyed or irritated or in a bad mood |
| Cunning | craftiness |
| Churlish | rude, stingy |
| Frailty | weakness |
| Thriftless | useless, fruitless |
| Dram | tiniest bit (apothecaries' weight of 60 grams) |
| Scruple | doubt (apothecaries' weight of 20 grams) |
| Obstacle | something that gets in the way |
| Incredulous | incredible |
| Sanctity | to sanctify, to make holy, holiness |
| Favor | your faces look alike, to prefer, if you please |
| Venerable | commanding respect |
| Unsafe | unreliable,untrustworthy |
| Impetuosity | given to sudden action, given to rash action, doing without thinking |
| Bounty | treasure or generosity |
| Scatheful | harmful |
| Adverse | hostile |
| Fulsome | disgusting |
| Unauspicious | unfavorable |
| Beguiled | tricked |
| Dissembling | hypocritical |
| Epistles | letters from people that came later |
| Notorious | famous in a bad way |
| Epiphany | 12th night before January 6th; sudden feeling of realization |
| Allusion | a reference to something from history or literature that the audience should have known about |
| Pun | wasn't expected; play on homonyms |
| Word Play | any other play on words |
| Antithesis | a balancing of opposites |
| Theme | message or life lesson in a story |
| Comedy | ends with people happily married |
| Tragedy | major characters die in the end |
| History | true stories about real people people or events that happened in the past usually kings, queens |
| Poetic Language | lines often have rhyme, rhythm, and figures of speech |
| Rhyme | words that share the same ending sounds occur at the end of of a line |
| Meter | pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Images | when words bring up pictures in your mind |
| Act | one of the five major parts in a play |
| Scene | part of an act with different groups of people in them |
| Stage | raised platform on which the actors perform |
| Pit | lower then the stage the poor people stand there to watch the play |
| Gallery | a roofed area at the back of the theater where the nobles sit |
| Dramatic Irony | when a character does not know something the audience knows |
| Aside | a short comment by a character meant to only be heard by the audience |
| Monologue | a long speech by one character to a audience on stage |
| Dialogue | two characters talking to each other on stage |
| Solilguy | a long speech by one character to themselves |
| Lyrics | words to a song |
| Costumes | what people wear on stage, signify characters state period of time or setting |
| Props | objects characters need to move the action forward |
| Lighting | to set the mood, so you can tell the differences between acts , or highlight an area of the stage |
| Scenery | tells you where you are not essential |
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kendallanne
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