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What are the 3 elements of a tragic hero?

1) elevated in rank

2) tragic flaw (hamartia: ego)

3) demise / downfall

—> relief → catharsis (pity and fear in reader)

tragic flaw

hamartia

first choral ode

parados

“song of praise” (final ode)

paean

excessive pride

hubris

chorus

choral ode

what is the them of Antigone?

moral vs. civil law

→ Antigone (ethics, faith, spirituality) (morality) (MORAL)

→ Creon (laws) (tragic hero) (CIVIL)

reckoning or recognition (has to live with that)

catharsis (could take place in character or reader)

what is a type of literature that artfully expresses an idea, conveys an experience, or describes an object?

poetry

what does poetry mean in Greek?

“to create”

Aristotle defined this term as “the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.” It is the art of finding ways of persuading an audience

rhetoric

what does SOAPSTone stand for?

Subject

Occasion

Audience

Purpose

Speaker

Tone

in SOAPSTone, who is the person or group who creates a text?

Speaker

in SOAPSTone, what is the time and place a speech is given or a piece is written?

Occasion

in SOAPSTone, who is the listener, viewer, or reader of tect

Audience

in SOAPSTone, what is the goal the speaker wants to achieve?

Purpose

in SOAPSTone, what is the topic of the text?

Subject

in SOAPSTone, what is a speaker’s attitude toward the subject as conveyed by the speaker’s stylistic and/or rhetorical choices?

tone