| A | B |
|---|
| Pathos | an incident of a painflu or destructive sort which stirs emotion, a strictly physical physical event, not mental anguish |
| Catharsis | purging of emotions, great pity and fear aroused by the actions of the actions of teh tragic hero, felt by the audience |
| Deus ex machina | god out of a machine, a mechanical solution, often a man was placed in a basket and lowered from the top of a the temple facade to look as if it were a god from Mt. Olympus to pull together elements so that the play could continue always a sign of poor writing |
| Unity(time) | in the time it takes to see the play, the events occur naturally |
| Unity(place) | only one setting, all other action told by messengers of the chorus |
| Unity(plot) | no scene can be deleted without damaging the plot |
| Divisions of Play(prologos) | everything befroe the first choral song/ode |
| DOP(parados) | the first choral song |
| DOP(episode) | everything between each choral ode |
| Ode | the choral songs between epidodes to give background information, to give advice, to establish the mood of the next episode, to express the attitude of the audience at that point. AKA stasimons - refers to poetic meter |
| Exode | last choral song |
| Strophe | part of the ode sung while the chorus moves from one side of the stage to the other |
| Antistrophe | the part of the ode sung by the chorus as it moves back to the first side of the stage |
