Greek Tragedy Vocab Flashcards
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Chiton
Long, flowing robe, dyed in symbolic colors.
Anagorisis
Recognition.
Catharis
Purifying of the emotions on relieving of emotional tensions.
Hamartia
Inner weakness or inherent error.
Huberis
Excessive pride.
Pathos
Scene of suffering.
Peripetia
A reversal of a situation
Skene
A theatre. Trapdoor remember.
Trilogy
A series of 3 related events.
Dramatic irony
The contrast between what a character thinks the truth is, as revealed in a speech or action, and what an audience knows to be true.
Stickomythia
Dialogue in brief, alternate rhymes.
Paradox
A statement or situation that seems contradictory, unbelievable, or absurd but that may be true in fact.
Archetype
The original pattern, or model, from which all other things of the same kind are made.
Archetype examples:
The hero The outcast The scapegoat Star-crossed lovers The shrew
Situational examples:
The task
The quest
The loss of innocence
The initiation
Strophe
The movement of the chorus.
Antistrophe
The return movement if the chorus.
Stasimon
A song of the chorus, continued without the interruption dialogue.
Drama
The presentation of emotion, written and living.
Theme
Main idea.
Symbolism
A concrete object used to stand for a more abstract concept.
Plot
What happened.
Characterization
The ways characters develop in a story.
Characterization examples:
Explicit statement by the author. Learn something about moral through looks. The aspects of setting. Characters actions. Reaction or and to the character. What he thinks. What he says. What others say.
