Eng Lit. Terms For Midterm

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Conflict; dramatic confrontation

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Agon

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Recognition

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Anagnorisis

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Necessity

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Ananke

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Complete liberation from emotions and affection

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Apatheia

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A unified day, place, action. Should take place in a single setting, place, time.

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Aristole's Unities

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Purging of pity and fear

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Catharis

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Progress of the tragic characters leads to a reversal

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Peripeteia

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Fate

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Moira

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"God from the machine"

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Deux ex machina

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Greek God who inspired orgiastic celebrations that found their way into early Greek drama; an agricultural and resurrection deity, God of wine and life giving power. Emotion.

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Dionysus

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God of Reason. (Greek god)

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Apollo

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"Goat song"

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Tragedy

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Greek Mythology. A woodland creature depicted as having the pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.

Myth. One of a class of woodland deities, attendant on Bacchus, represented as part human, part horse, and sometimes part goat and noted for riotousness and lasciviousness

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Satyr

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An example that serves as pattern or model. The conceptual framework that permits the explanation and investigation of phenomena or the objects of study in a field of inquiry.

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Paradigm

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The belief that all things are inhabited by spirits

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Animism

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- Wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.
- A place or scene of riotous uproar or utter chaos

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Pandemonium

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Prohibition. Prohibited by forbiiden thing.

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Tabboo

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The roman greek god of nature

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Pan

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- A sudden overwhelming fear, with or without cause, that produces hysterical or irrational behavior, and that often spreads quickly through a group of persons or animals.
- An instance, outbreak, or period of such fear.

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Panic

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A comparison using like or as

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Simile

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A direct comparison

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Metaphor

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The central character of a narrative

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Protagonist

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The other force or forces which may be essentially external or essentially internal.
- Another character or group of characters
- Force of nature or power of universe
- Society or culture
- An aspect of the protagonists own personality or value system
(Character or force opposed to the central character as it moves toward its resolution)

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Antagonist

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The events or actions of a story, novel etc.; what happens

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Plot

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Resolution of the conflict in the plot

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Denouement

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Increasing tension in the conflict; suspense

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Rising Action

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Continuing action of the plot, after the climax

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Falling Action

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The moment of supreme tension

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Climax

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Background information necessary to understand the opening situation

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Exposition

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Where the story happens; time, place, scenery, physical elements

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Setting

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Who wrote Genesis

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Mosas

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Who wrote The Song of Songs

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King Soloman

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Who wrote Theogony

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Hesiod

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Who wrote Aristotle's Poetics

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Aristotle

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Who wrote Oedipus Rex & Antigone

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Sophocles

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Oedipus

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