Oedipus Terminology

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Important Terminology within the literature of Oedipus the King

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Hamartia

The tragic flaw that leads to the downfall of the tragic hero. Combination of internal and external forces.

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Hubris

Excessive pride, arrogance, or overconfidence. someone who is a know-it-all.

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Peripeteia

(A BIG CHANGE) An action performed by a character that has the opposite of its intended affect. The moment in the plot when a change occurs as a reversal, the point when the hero’s fortunes turn in an unexpected direction.

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Anagnorisis

The recognition that the tragic hero experiences that marks a change from ignorance to knowledge. marks the highest point of emotional intensity in the text.

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Catharsis

The audiences emotional release in response to the tragic hero’s downfall.

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Dramatic Irony

The tension created when the audience is aware of something that is unknown to the character.

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Paradox

A seeming contradiction—whatever sounds impossible yet is possible. A play on ideas, side by side contraries that seem to clash and reconcile simultaneously.

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Apostrophe

A figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person, and abstract idea, or a thing.

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Stichomythia

Characters are assigned alternating individual lines of parallel verse in a dialogue. Used to break up longer rhetorical passages, heighten dramatic tension, and differentiate between masked performers.

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