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19 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Skene
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Stage building and dressing room
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Deus ex Machina
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God from machine
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Exodus
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Last scene of play
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Buskins
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Elevated shoes
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Parodos
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Entrance of chorus
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Orchestra
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Dancing place
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Hamartia
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Character's tragic flaw
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Poetics
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Aristotle's study of drama
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Hubris
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Overweening pride
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Anagnorisis
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Recognition of flaw
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Peripeteia
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Reversal of fortune
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Catharsis
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Purgation of emotions
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Tragic irony
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Audience knows the character doesn't
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Jocasta
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Oedipus's wife/mother
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Thebes
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Setting for Oedipus the King
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Antigone and Ismene
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Oedipus's children/sisters
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Tiresias
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A blind prophet
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Creon
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Jocasta's brother
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Dionysus
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God of fertility and wine
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