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Unit 12 Terms Flashcards

1
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What is any brief poem, often used as an inscription for monuments or tombs?

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Epigram

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What is a short poem written in pairs of unrhymed lines, often on themes of war, love, or death?

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Elegy

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3
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What is poetry that combines criticism with wit or ironic humor to ridicule something?

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Satire

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4
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What is a brief anecdote told in a simple, direct style in prose or verse describing a single incident and designed to teach a moral, usually by using animal as characters?

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Fable

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5
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What is a form of literature written in prose or poetry or a combination of the two which relies on action to portray life or character and also tells a story by actions and dialogue?

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Drama

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What are written instructions designed to aid in producing the play and helping the reader visualize the setting of scenes by giving details of time and place, the entrances and exits of characters, and other pointers?

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Stage directions

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What are speeches between two or more characters, or all the speeches of the play taken collectively?

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Dialogue

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What is a speech by one character alone on the stage?

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Soliloquy

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9
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What is a comment made to the audience that the other characters are not supposed to have heard?

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Aside

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What are actual movements and speech of characters performing or “acting out” situation on the stage; involves the whole pattern of events telling the story?

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Action

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11
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What are persons who perform the action called?

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Characters

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12
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What is the hero who is in conflict with an opponent?

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Protagonist

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13
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What is the opponent of the hero?

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Antagonist

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14
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What are the arrangements of events called?

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Plot

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15
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What is the sequence of plot in play; usually arranged in the following sequences: exposition, rising action, climax (crisis), falling action, and catastrophe or dénouement?

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Dramatic structure

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16
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What introduces the characters and conflict and provides necessary background?

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Exposition

17
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What are the events (caused by an inciting force) that advance and complicate the action?

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Rising action

18
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What is the event(s) where the action changes its course?

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Climax (crisis)

19
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What is the event(s) from the climax that lead to the catastrophe or dénouement?

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Falling action

20
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What is the final outcome or resolution where all loose ends are tied up?

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Catastrophe or dénouement

21
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What is something that interrupts a static situation (often in the form of a new character) and causes the rising action?

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Inciting force

22
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What type of drama ends unhappily; events which have great significance; characters are usually important figures (such as kings or rulers): and themes that deal with universal questions of life (such as the nature of justice or the destiny of man)?

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Tragedy

23
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What type of drama ends happily; events are the trivial and everyday details of life; characters are ordinary men rather than kings or nobles; and themes deal with man’s imperfections, vices, and weaknesses?

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Comedy

24
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What is a part of the Greek theater where the audience sat?

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Auditorium

25
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What is the stage of a Greek theater (in the center of which was an altar to Dionysus)?

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Orchestra

26
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What is the part of a Greek theater where costumes were changed and scenery was stored?

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Skene

27
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What is a group of dancers and singers used to comment upon the action of the play called?

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Chorus

28
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What is the exceptional character who undergoes a morally significant struggle which ends disastrously?

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Tragic hero

29
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What is the weakness or defect which helps bring about the tragic hero’s downfall?

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Tragic flaw

30
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What has few characters and observes the unities of time, place and action: everything happens within a twenty-four-hour period, takes place in one location, characterized by tightly plotted action with no subplots, and consists of a prologue, parados, and five episodes (scenes) separated by choral odes?

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Greek tragedy

31
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What gives the introductory background or exposition?

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Prologue

32
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What is the song delivered as the chorus enters the orchestra?

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Parados (choral entry ode)

33
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What is the name of scenes in a Greek tragedy?

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Episodes

34
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What divides the episodes and is made up of three parts: strophe, antistrophe, and epode?

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Choral odes

35
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What is recited as the chorus moves in one direction across the stage?

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Strophe

36
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What is recited as the chorus turns and moves in the opposite direction?

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Antistrophe

37
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What is delivered when the chorus is stationary?

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Epode

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