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Frailty or error; misfortune beyond control
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Hamartia
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Overwhelming pride
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Hubris
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Reversal in fortune, opposite of that expected
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Peripeteia
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A sudden recognition
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Anagnorisis
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Cleansing
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Catharsis
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The words or acts of a character in a play may carry a meaning unperceived by the character but understood by the audience, usually the character's own interests are involved in a way he cannot understand
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Dramatic irony
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The form of dramatic irony in which a character in a tragedy uses words which can mean one thing to him and another to those better acquainted with the real situation, especially when the character is about to become a victim of Fate
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Tragic irony
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Who wrote Oedipus Rex?
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Sophocles
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Explain the role of the chorus.
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They are ideal spectators. They clarifiy experiences and feelings of the character in everyday terms and express the conventional attitude toward the developing story. They are innocent bystanders.opening sc
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Opening scene; exposition
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Prologue
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Entrance of chorus
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Parados
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Act or scen in which plot is developed
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Episode
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Choral ode to the end of the episode
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Stasimon
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Final action after last stasimon when all players exit ceremoniously
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Exodos
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According to Aristotle what is the aim of a tragedy?
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To bring about a catharsis of spectators to arouse in them sensations of pity and fear or to purge them of these emotions so they will leave the theater feeling cleansed and uplifted wiht a greater understanding of the ways of god and men.
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