Vocab

Anaphora

Repetition of a word of phrase in successive clauses

Soliloquy

Speech to an audience in a play that other characters do not hear

Dramatic Irony

When the audience knows something that the characters do not

incorregible

Unable to be reformed

Disparage

To speak of in a slighting way or negatively

Placate

To make someone less angry or hostile

Transitory

Not permanent

Dilettante

A person with an ametur understanding of a field

Ire

An expression of strong anger

Vilify

To make vicious statements about

Proliferate

To spread something rapidly

Innate

Processed since birth