Dynamic Character

a character that changes throughout the work

i.e. Macbeth at the begining of the novel would not kill and especially wouldnt kill his king and betray his king. At the end he is killing everyone 

Static Character

a character that never changes.

i.e. Simon (LOTF) he never changes and always stays unique and arsty even when all the other boys become savage. He was not able to survive becasue he didnt conform and he was killed.

Allegory

a visible symbolic representation of an abstract idea

i.e. LOTF- the Human Condition

a figurtive story but really represents something bigger

figurative/ Literal

Lord Of the flies is a figurtive story but a metaphor for someting literally goign on which is WWII

Point of View

it effects how we feel about the other characters

Curious incadent we had christophers point of view.. it effected how we felt about other characters

Microcosm/ Macrocosm

microcosm is the small picture

i.e. the island

macrocosm is the whole picture

i.e. everything going on outside the island like WWII and evil human nature

LOTF

the Lord of the flies foreshadows Simon's death he says "if you dont have fun they will do you" and then they brutely muder Simon

refernce to a place, or thing outside the sotry outside the book (reference to history)

LOTF: Beelzebub is refered to as the lord of the flies

Aside

a part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intended only for the audience.

Macbeth says that he wants the stars to hide his deep and dark desires in an aside and this shows the audience how he is nervous that people will knwo he wants to be king and is willing to kill for it

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.

In a soliloquy Macbeth debates whether or not he should kill Duncan and by then end of it decides that he wont kill Duncan until his wife reconvinces him again

a secondary character that when you compare it to the main character we understand more about the main character

Banquo is a foil for macbeth because he is uneffected by the witches predections while Macbeth who is naiive is really effected by it.

appears wrong/ impossible but is real

fair is foul, and foul is fair

tragic hero

a literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy

Macbeth

the order of the universe based on hierchary

i.e. it changed b/c macbeth messed it up by killing duncan

equivocation

not telling the whole truth

the witches equivocate and dont explain how the forest will walk over to where Macbeth's castle so Macbeth belives that he will never be overthrown

the turning point at which the conflict begins to resolve itself for better or worse,

when Macbeth murders Duncan and becomes king

a mocory- keeps same basic plot but looking at it in a comicol plot

the simpsons mocory of the Lord of the flies

emotions, feelings we deel about it

i.e. "what done cannot be un done"

dictionary actual deffenition

"what's done is done"