Medea - Metalanguage/Vocabulary

Question 1

Stichomythia

Answer 1

Fast paced dialogue

Question 2

Agon

Answer 2

Key scene

Question 3

Psychomania

Answer 3

Conflict of the soul

Question 4

Strophe/Antistrophe

Answer 4

Parts of the Chorus who exchange odes

Question 5

Catharsis

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Purging of emotions by evoking pity and fear

Question 6

Hubris

Answer 6

Pride or arrogance

Question 7

Pathos

Answer 7

A feeling of sympathy/pity

Question 8

Parados

Answer 8

Ramps used to enter the stage

Question 9

Stasimon

Answer 9

Ode sung by the Chorus

Question 10

Prologos

Answer 10

Prologue

Question 11

Sophrosyne

Answer 11

Self-Control

Question 12

Prudence

Answer 12

Ability to make wise decisions

Question 13

Temperance

Answer 13

Ability to govern emotions

Question 14

Fortitude

Answer 14

Courage tempered by prudence and justice

Question 15

Themis

Answer 15

Goddess representing law and natural order

Question 16

Dike

Answer 16

Personification of retributive justice

Question 17

Deus ex Machina

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A device introduced unexpectedly

Question 18

Casuistry

Answer 18

Clever sounding but flawed reasoning

Question 19

Mise an Abyme

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Endlessly recurring image or story

Question 20

Culpability

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Fault, blame

Question 21

Venality

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Lying, stealing, betraying for personal advantage

Question 22

Callous

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Insensitive

Question 23

Equivocate

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Constantly avoiding committing oneself

Question 24

Appropriation

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To take from someone else and use for own purpose

Question 25

Volatile

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Tending or threatening to break out into open violence

Question 26

Vindictive

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Disposed or inclined to revenge

Question 27

Ardour

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Any powerful or compelling emotion

Question 28

Incense

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To inflame with wrath; enrage

Question 29

Virulence

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The quality of being actively poisonous; spitefully hostile

Question 30

Indignation

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Strong displeasure at something considered unjust

Question 31

Respite

Answer 31

An interval of relief

Question 32

Beguile

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To charm; divert, entertain, deceive

Question 33

Burgeoning

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Quickly developing

Question 34

Impassioned

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Filled with intense feeling

Question 35

Rancour

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Bitterness or resentfulness, especially when longstanding

Question 36

Impugn/Repudiate

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To disclaim responsibility for; challenge as false

Question 37

Replete

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Full; filled to the brim

Question 38

Impetus

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Stimulus, driving force

Question 39

Rueful

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Causing sorrow or pity

Question 40

Insouciant

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Unmindful; unconcerned

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Forlorn

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Miserable; unhappy; dreary

Question 42

Imperious

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Domineering in an arrogant manner

Question 43

Equanimity

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Mental or emotional stability or composure

Question 44

Reprisal

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Act of retaliation

Question 45

Peripeteia

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Reversal of fortune