AP English Literature Othello Vocabulary

incensed

angered

timorous

timid

lascivious

lewd

divine (verb)

foretell/know by inspiration

mountebank

swindler/charlatan/trickster

sated

satisfied

pliant

flexible/easily influenced

dilatory

tending to be late

hitherto

until now

ere

before

wanting (adjective)

lacking

voluble

unstable

hazard (verb)

risk/bet

languish

become weak

dissemble

evade/distract/pretend

veritable

actual/true/real

fiend

devil

anon

soon

anagnorisis

moment of recognition

peripetia

reversal of fortune

hamartia

tragic flaw

dramatis personae

list of characters in a play

Freytag's Pyramid/Five Act Structure

Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution/Denouement

blank verse

unrhymed iambic pentameter

verisimilitude

appearance of truth/realism

mimesis

imitation

apostrophe

address to an absent or imaginary person or abstraction

theme vs. motif

-theme: underlying idea in a work

-motif: repetition of certain patterns, ideas or images to reinforce the theme

duologue

conversation between two characters

didactic

intended to teach

blocking

choreography

caesura

strong pause within a line of verse

enjambment

when a line "spills over" into the next line

aside

a remark that other characters do not hear - only the audience hears it

soliloquy

long speech delivered by one character, which other characters do not hear

monologue

long speech directed at other characters/the audience