Morgan Burcham Macbeth Notes

Imagery language that appeals to the senses
Meter a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables of poetry
Simile a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things by using connective words
Metaphor a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things without connective words
Personification a kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human
Dramatic Irony when the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story doesn’t
Plot the series of related events that make up a story or a plot
Blank Verse poetry in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Aside private words that a character in a play speaks to the audience
Soliloquy a long speech in which a character is usually alone onstage expressing ones feelings
Tragic Flaw an error in judgment or characters weakness
Conflict a struggle between opposing characters, forces, or emotions
Tragedy a play, or novel in which the main character comes to an unhappy end