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| Tragedy | a literacy work dealing with very serious and important themes in which digingied tragic figures meets destruction therough some personal flaw or weakness |
| tragic hero | in classic tragedy a person of high birth who has flaw whihc causes his her downfall and whose destruction is in somewway invovled with the well being of the state the tragic hero or heroine ogeten gains a measure of wisdome of self awareness from failure and faces catastrophe with dignity adn courage |
| hubris | arrogance or excessive pride which cause the heros transgression aginest the gods usually the tragic flaw |
| nemesis | fate that can not be escaped |
| comic relief | the use of comic secne to interrupt a sucssiion og intensely tragic dramtic moments |
| stichomythia | chracters debate in rapid fire dialouge that brings chracters antagonisms to a climax |
| expostion | the part of the play which gives the backround information creates the tone gives the setting introduces the characters and supplies other facts nes. to an understand of the play |
| exciting force | the force which starts the conflict of opposing interests and sets in motion the rising action of the play raises the major dramtic quesiton around which play is centered |
| compication(rising action) | the part of a play in which the entanglement of affairs (several events) caused byt he confilt of oppsing forces is developed |
| climax | that place where the complication ceases and the resolution begins the turning point at which the fortunes of the protangonist each their peak and from which they begin to go in other direction |
| peripeteia | reversal of fortune the ecent or force whcih starts the falling action in a tragedy it is either a seperate event following closely upon the climax or is identified with the climax |
| falling action | denouncement th part of the play that allows climax beiging often with the peripetia exhibits th failing fourtunes of the hero and the sucessful effort of the ocunterplayers and culimnates in catastrophe |
| anagnorisis | recongination or discovery on the part of the hero change from ifnorance to knowledge the final revelation |
| catastrophe | the tragic failure usually the death of the hero and often his oppenonts as well comes as nautral outgrowth of the action the catastrophe initates the denoucement |
| resolution | the denoucnement the conclusion what happens after destruction of th hero the resolution has 2 effects one on the characters in the drame and the other on the auidences |
| catharsis | the purgation of emations of pity and fear which leaves the viewr both relived and elated |
| restored order | a glimpse of restored order which often follows catastrophe the kingdom is restored with new leader etc. |
| oblgatoru scene | the pint in a play where the oppising meet and all the facts are revelaed and the outcome is ieveitable the catheris is at this point too |
