Antigone (add def. + study guide questions) Flashcards
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Dramatic Irony
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the situation in which the audience of a play knows something that the characters do not know
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Conventions of Greek Drama
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- Because the Greek outdoor theatre was so large, actors could not depend on facial expressions or vocal inflections
- Actors relied on large, simple physical gestures and on their ability to voice the poetry of the script.
- No female actors.
- Chorus of approximately15 actors who represented townspeople or other groups of people in the play.
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Tragic hero
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a literary character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction
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Tragic flaw
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- Extreme wealth or power
- Character flaw (ex. Hubris)
- Character flaws lead to downfall
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Hubris
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excessive pride and arrogance
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Miasma (Pollution)
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Sense of pollution or contamination resulting from some act of impiety
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Catharsis
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the purification and purgation of emotions—particularly pity and fear—through art or any extreme change in emotion that results in renewal and restoration
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Reversal of Fortune
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the shift of the tragic protagonist’sfortunefrom good to bad, which is essential to the plot of atragedy.
