greek tragedy

a person of ____ like a princess move from _____ to _______ through some character flaw, error in judgement, or fate

importance, happiness, disaster

Centers around the _________ of a major character

suffering

End in ______

disaster

Uses ______ language and ____

poetic, song

Good will of the ___ determines a city’s welfare

Gods

Reverence =

patriotism

Content based on ____ all Greeks knew

myths/allusions

Hamartia

the flaw that causes the downfall of hero

Hubris

the hero’s pride and disrespect for natural order

Peripeteia

the reversal of fate that the hero experiences

Anagnorisis

the change from ignorance to awareness- the moment during which the hero makes an important discovery

Nemesis

unescapable fortune or agent of downfall that the hero cannot avoid usually out of retribution for their hubris

Catharsis

purification of what is wrong in the dramatic environment

examples:

peripeteia: when Oedipus first hears of the death of Polybus the news at first seems good but them is revealed to be disastrous

anagnorisis: Oedipus kills his father in ignorance and later learns of his true relation

a tragic hero is

easy to sympathize with, hubristic, makes an error in judgement, possesses superior qualities

play structure

prolouge, chorus, scene 1, chorus, choragos, paen, exodos

logos

argument that appeals to logic or reason

pathos

appeals to emotions

ethos

disposition, character, or values specific to a character or group

strophe

poetic term, first part of an ode

parados

opening song sung by the chorus

exodus

final scene