Cyrano de Bergerac Vocabulary

Panache

Flamboyant confidence of style or manner

Wit

Keen intelligence, mental sharpness

Honor

High respect, great esteem

Valor

Great courage in the face of danger, especially in battle

Pride

Consciousness of one’s own dignity, deep pleasure from one’s own achievement

Disdain

The feeling that someone/something is unworthy of one’s consideration or respect, contempt

Eloquence

Fluent/persuasive speaking or writing

Satire

Humor, irony, exaggeration to expose and criticize people’s stupidity

Invective

Insulting, abusive, or highly critical language

Mockery

Teasing and contemptuous language/behavior directed at a particular person/thing

Hyperbole

Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

Melancholy

A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause

Repression

The action of subduing someone or something by force

Longing

An intense desire to do or have something

Poignant

Evoking a keenly felt sense of emotion, especially of bittersweet sadness or regret

Illusion

A thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses

Identity

The fact of being who or what a person or thing is

Sacrifice

An act of slaughtering an animal/person or surrendering a possession as an offering to God or to a divine/supernatural figure

Nobility

The quality of being noble in character

Tragic Irony

The full significance of a character’s words/actions are clear to the audience/reader, although unknown to the character