Twelfth Night
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| theme | lesson or moral in a story
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| comedy | play that ends with happy marriages
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| tragedy | play that ends with major characters dieing
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| history | plays based on true stories of famous people of the past
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| poetic language | lines of rhythm and figurative language
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| rhyme | words that sound the same at the end of lines
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| meter | pattern of stressed and unstressed rhyme
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| images | when words bring up pictures in your mind
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| act | 1 of 5 major parts of a play
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| scene | parts of an act
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| stage | platform where actors perform
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| pit | where poor people stood to watch plays
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| gallery | roof area where nobles sat to watch plays
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| dramatic irony | when a character in a play does not know something the audience knows
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| aside | short comment by a character meant to be heard only by the audience
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| monologue | when a character says something in a long speech to the people on stage
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| dialogue | characters talking to each other
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| soliloquy | long speech by one person that only he or she can hear
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| lyrics | words to a song
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| costumes | what people wear on stage as status or time period
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| props | objects characters need to move forward in action
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| lighting | sets the mood and shows transitions in a play
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| scenery | setting
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| surfeit | filling or satisfying
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| naught | nothing
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| abatement | stopping
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| pestilence | purified the air of everything infectious
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| brine | salt water
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| elysium | where the blessed go after death (Greek Mythology)
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| perchance | perhaps; possibly
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| provident | lucky
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| prattle | gossip
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| abjured | avoiding or staying away from
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| eunuch | male soprano
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| excepted | not included
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| prodigal | spendthrift; wastes or spends too much
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| prudent | careful; wise; practical
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| accost | to approach
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| porquoi | why (French)
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| discourse | speech; conversation
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| prosper | successful; grow wealthy
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| malignancy | evil or bad influence
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| distemper | disturb, manage
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| publish | proclaim
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| cunning | craftiness
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| thriftless | useless;fruitless
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| recompense | repayment
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| extravagency | wasting
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| peevishly | impulsive; annoyed; irritated
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| churlish | rude; stingy; boredom
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| frailty | weakness
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| dram | tiniest bit
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| scruple | doubt
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| obstacle | something that blocks or gets in the way
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| incredulous | unbelievable
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| sanctify | to make holy
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| favor | look alike
to prefer
if you please
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| impetuosity | impulsive
doing without thinking
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| venerable | demanding respect
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| unsafe | not safe
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| bounty | treasure or generosity
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| scatheful | harmful
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| adverse | hostile
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| fulsome | disgusting
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| unauspicious | unfavorable
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| beguiled | tricked
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| dissembling | hypocritical
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| epistles | letters
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| notorious | famous in a bad way
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| Epiphany epiphany | Epiphany- twelfth day of Christmas
epiphany- sudden realization of something true
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| wordplay | words that are used become the main subject of the work
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| allusion | reference to something or someone else
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| pun | form of word play that suggests two or more meanings
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