Macbeth Word Splashes

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Furbished

Back 1

brightly polished

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Juxtaposition

Back 2

put two objects together to compare

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Blank Verse

Back 3

Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter

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Aside

Back 4

when a character steps aside and speaks to the audience or another character but the other characters don't hear

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Surmise

Back 5

to guess, to draw an opinion on bogus info

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Prophetic

Back 6

in a predictive manner

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Motif

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a reaccuring theme, thing, or emotion

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Soliloquy

Back 8

a long speech a character says to himself

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Liege

Back 9

a king, royal person

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Chastise

Back 10

to harshly scold

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Metaphysical

Back 11

abstract, supernatural

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Sovereign

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a king or monarch

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Dramatic Irony

Back 13

audience knows something a character doesn't

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Verbal Irony

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character says something but means something elese (sarcasm)

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Situational Irony

Back 15

something occurs you didn't expect

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Augment

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increase

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Predominance

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superiority

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Palbable

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can be touched or held, a feeling in the story

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Characterization

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characterizing someone based on thoughts, feelings, speech, and actions

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Stealthy

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stealth, quiet, unnoticed

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Multitudinous

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vast, in great numbers

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Atmosphere

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aura, surroundings

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Equivocate

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to tell falsehoods

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Anoiled

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to make something sacred

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Indissoluble

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cannot mix, cannot be undone

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Connotation

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implied meaning

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Infirmity

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physical o rmental defect

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Dautless

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courageous

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Jocund

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cheery, cheerful

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Malevolence

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evil wishing, willing something bad on someone

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Climax

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main atraction, high point, turning point

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Pernicious

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wicked

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Judicious

Back 33

shpwing good judgement

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Sundry

Back 34

misc, various assortment

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Intemperance

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lack of restraint

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Avarice

Back 36

greed

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Credulous

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gullible, believing to readily

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Plot Development

Back 38

exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution

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Theme

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a messeage in a literary work that says something about life

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Perturbation

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disorder, physical or mental

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Pristine

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clear, pure, unused

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Clamorous

Back 42

noisy

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Harbringers

Back 43

forerunner