greed | excessive desire to acquire or possess more than one needs or deserves |
ambition | a strong drive for success |
corruption | use of a position of trust and/or power for dishonest gain |
prophecy | prediction of the future |
paradox | a self-contradiction(Ex. “‘I always lie’ is a paradox because if it is true it must be false”) |
minion | a follower or underling of a powerful person, esp. a servile or unimportant one |
haste | the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner |
solicit | To ask for in a formal way. |
prate | idle or foolish and irrelevant talk |
whence | From where |
multitudinous | too numerous to be counted |
posterity | all future generations |
indissoluble | permanent |
parricide | act of killing one’s father, mother, or other close relative |
sundry | miscellaneous unspecified objects |
dispatched | sent off or away |
conjure | cause to appear by magic; summon (a devil or a spirit) by magical power; practice magic (esp. by very quick movement of the hands); evoke; conjure up: bring into the mind; Ex. The magician conjured a rabbit out of his hat. |
thane | a man ranking below a noble in Anglo-Saxon England (especially one who gave military service in exchange for land) |
potent | powerful |
apparition | a ghostly appearing figure |
perturb | disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed |
guise | an external appearance, cover, mask |
fiend | a cruel wicked and inhuman person |
intrenchant | invulnerable; incapable of being hurt or wounded |
treatise | article treating a subject systematically and thoroughly |
profess | confess one’s faith in, or allegiance to |
venal | capable of being corrupted |
quell | suppress or crush completely |
reprisal | an injury done in return for injury |
duress | compulsion by threat; forcible confinement |
askance | (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy |
overt | open and observable |
tantamount | equal to |
talisman | a trinket or piece of jewelry thought to be a protection against evil |
dramatic irony | when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play |
soliloquy | Dramatic speech that reveals a character’s private thoughts to the audience. |
aside | A remark made by a character to another character that others on stage are not supposed to hear. |
blank verse | Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
Iambic pentameter | A metrical pattern in poetry which consists of 5 iambic feet per line, or 10 syllables total per line. (An iamb, or iambic foot, consists of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.) |
colors | The national flags or banners of a country |
foreshadowing | A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader. |
theme | A message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader. |
covert | not openly acknowledged or displayed |
Macbeth- Themes
December 3, 2019