Vocab 21-40

1. Pretense - lying, faking 
2. Prodigious - enormous, giant, massive
3. misnomer - name that leads you astray
4. magistrate - judge; literally a judge
5. Partisan - to take a side
6. bewildered - confused
7. Puritan Plain Style - a culture of life, writing, art, and whatever that was bland
8. vain - when you do something for nothing (there's no result)
9. Pewter - inexpensive, ugly type of metal
10. martyr - person who tries to die to accomplish something
11. situational irony - it is irony, when the opposite happens to what you expected
12. Dramatic irony - when the audience knows but the characters don't
13. verbal irony - sarcasm; when you say one thing but mean another
14. theology - study of religion
15. calamity - disaster, chaos
16. vengeance - revenge, pay back
17. aside - when a character shares their inner thoughts aloud
18. lechery - adultery
19. grapple - wrestle
20. 4th wall - the invisible wall that separate the audience from the play. Sometimes gets broken when the cast talks to the audience.