Vocab 4 test

Prologue

Introduction of any literary work, especially in a play that provides necessary exposition to the story

Epilogue

Conclusion of any literary work providing necessary exposition to end the story

Soliloquy

A speech on stage alone that allows the character to speak aloud for audience only to hear

Aside

A device in which a character in a drama makes a short speech which is heard by the audience but not by other characters in the play

Catharsis

My purging of the feelings of pity and fear that according to Aristotle occurred in the audience of tragic drama

Morose

Sorrowful and sullen ; broodingly gloomy

Odious

Extremely distasteful or detestable

Palatial

Large and glorious, as a palace

Prelude

Introduction or overture, especially to musical performance

Quiescent

Inactive or at rest

Reprisal

Retaliation an act of revenge or retribution

Sequester

To confine and isolate

Surmise

To guess imagine or deduce

Usurious

Requiring excessive or illegal interest to be paid on a loan

Wizen

To cause to dry out, to deplete all moisture from an object