Llce Controle Idioms Greek Flashcards

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A drama set in a household

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Domestic

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Domestic

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A drama set in a household

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A character who doesn’t fit in the normal model of a hero

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Anti-hero

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Anti-hero

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A character who doesn’t fit in the normal model of a hero

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The hero’s fatal error that leads to their inevitable downfall

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Hamartia

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Hamartia

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The hero’s fatal error that leads to their inevitable downfall

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The chance to make up for your faults/be saved from your actions

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Redemption

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Redemption

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The chance to make up for your faults/be saved from your actions

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

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Tragic hero

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Tragic hero

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

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The point at which the hero becomes aware of, or accepts the fact of his or her error of judgement

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Anagnorisis

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Anagnorisis

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The point at which the hero becomes aware of, or accepts the fact of his or her error of judgement

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The tragic hero’s change in behavior resulting from their recognition of error

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Reversal

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Reversal

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The tragic hero’s change in behavior resulting from their recognition of error

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A character who has excellent qualities

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Noble

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A noble

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A character who has excellent qualities

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Catharsis

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The emotional release experienced by the audience of a tragedy

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The emotional release experienced by the audience of a tragedy

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Catharsis

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Excessive pride or arrogance that results in the downfall of the protagonist

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Hubris

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Hubris

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Excessive pride or arrogance that results in the downfall of the protagonist

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A feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others

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Pathos

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Pathos

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A feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others

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To learn wisdom and to accept their limitations as humans before the laws. of the gods

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Purpose of tragedy for the tragic hero

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Purpose of tragedy for the tragic hero

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To learn wisdom and to accept their limitations as humans before the laws. of the gods

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To experience pathos or sympathy for the suffering experienced by the tragic hero as a result of his or her unwitting error of judgement
13. Purpose of tragedy for the audience
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Purpose of tragedy for the audience
To experience pathos or sympathy for the suffering experienced by the tragic hero as a result of his or her unwitting error of judgement
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Deceitful behavior
Duplicity
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Duplicity
Deceitful behavior
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To got too much on the ball
Be capable of doing a job very well ; be intelligent
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Be capable of doing a job very well ; be intelligent
Got too much on the ball
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To make a mountain out
Exaggerating
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To exaggerate
To make a mountain out of
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Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched
Don’t make plan before you have
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Don’t make plan before you have
Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched
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To get blood out from a stone
It’s impossible to do
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It’s impossible to do
To get blood out from a stone
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The sky’s the limit
There are no limits, anything is possible
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There are no limits, anything is possible
The sky’s the limit
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To paint the town red
To have a party, a lot of fun, a pub crawl
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To have a party, a lot of fun, a pub crawl
To paint the town red
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A dame a dozen
Extremely cheap and common
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Extremely cheap and common
A dame a dozen
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If at first you don’t succeed / try try again . Don’t give up too easily; persistence pays off in the end.
Don’t give up too fast, hard-work always off in the end
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Don’t give up too fast, hard-work always off in the end
If at first you don’t succeed / try try again . Don’t give up too easily; persistence pays off in the end.
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To call a spade a spade
speak clearly and directly about things, even embarrassing or unpleasant things.
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speak clearly and directly about things, even embarrassing or unpleasant things.
To call a spade a spade
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A piece of cake
Something very easy to do
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Something very easy to do
A piece of cake
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To beat around the bush
To delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant
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To delay or avoid talking about something difficult or unpleasant
To beat around the bush
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Hit the nail on the head
To identify something exactly to arrive at exactly the right answer
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To identify something exactly to arrive at exactly the right answer
Hit the nail on the head
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To cost an arm a leg
To be very expensive
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To be very expensive
To cost an arm a leg
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To grasp at straws
To make a desperate attempt to salvage a bad situation
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To make a desperate attempt to salvage a bad situation
To grasp at straws
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Tu catch somebody red handed
To see someone doing something bad or illegal
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To see someone doing something bad or illegal
To catch somebody red handed