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Medea - Metalanguage/Vocabulary Flashcards

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Stichomythia

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Fast paced dialogue

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Agon

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Key scene

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Psychomania

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Conflict of the soul

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Strophe/Antistrophe

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Parts of the Chorus who exchange odes

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Catharsis

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Purging of emotions by evoking pity and fear

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Hubris

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Pride or arrogance

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Pathos

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A feeling of sympathy/pity

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Parados

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Ramps used to enter the stage

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Stasimon

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Ode sung by the Chorus

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Prologos

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Prologue

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Sophrosyne

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Self-Control

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12
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Prudence

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Ability to make wise decisions

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Temperance

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Ability to govern emotions

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14
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Fortitude

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Courage tempered by prudence and justice

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15
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Themis

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Goddess representing law and natural order

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Dike

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Personification of retributive justice

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Deus ex Machina

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A device introduced unexpectedly

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18
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Casuistry

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Clever sounding but flawed reasoning

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Mise an Abyme

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Endlessly recurring image or story

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Culpability

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Fault, blame

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Venality

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Lying, stealing, betraying for personal advantage

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Callous

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Insensitive

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Equivocate

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Constantly avoiding committing oneself

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Appropriation

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To take from someone else and use for own purpose

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Volatile

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Tending or threatening to break out into open violence

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Vindictive

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Disposed or inclined to revenge

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Ardour

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Any powerful or compelling emotion

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Incense

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To inflame with wrath; enrage

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Virulence

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The quality of being actively poisonous; spitefully hostile

30
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Indignation

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Strong displeasure at something considered unjust

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Respite

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An interval of relief

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Beguile

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To charm; divert, entertain, deceive

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Burgeoning

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Quickly developing

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Impassioned

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Filled with intense feeling

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Rancour

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Bitterness or resentfulness, especially when longstanding

36
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Impugn/Repudiate

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To disclaim responsibility for; challenge as false

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Replete

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Full; filled to the brim

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Impetus

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Stimulus, driving force

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Rueful

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Causing sorrow or pity

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Insouciant

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Unmindful; unconcerned

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Forlorn

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Miserable; unhappy; dreary

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Imperious

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Domineering in an arrogant manner

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Equanimity

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Mental or emotional stability or composure

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Reprisal

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Act of retaliation

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Peripeteia

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Reversal of fortune

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