Literary Terms Jesmine Roberts-Torres, Brooke Campbell, Paula Jimenez

Terms of Focus Tragedy Classical Tragedy Domestic Tragedy

Tragedy Tone is serious, often somber. The effect is to strongly involve the audience in an emotional way. The outcome is disastrous for the protagonist and involves one or more deaths. Example Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare About two lovers who cannot be together because their families hate each other.

Classical Tragedy Center on a highborn hero who commits an irreversible error of judgment. It often results from hubris (excessive pride). Example Macbeth in Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth (c ). -It is about the killing of a monarch and the aftermath

Domestic Tragedy A protagonist whose origins are not noble or aristocrat but humble with mundane issues such as financial debt and marital strife. Example Arden of Faversham(1592), depicting the murder of a bourgeois man by his adulterous wife-From the English Renaissance in Britain