Literary Criticism

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Literature

Last updated 12:07 AM on 9/7/26
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Prose

A non-metrical composition

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Verse

A metrical composition

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Meter

The recurrence in poetry of a rhythmic pattern

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Tragedy

The imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude

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Catharsis

The purgation of pity and fear

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Plot

The imitation of an action

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Peripeteia

The reversal of fortune for a protagonist

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Stasimon

A choral ode without anapaests or trochaic tetrameters

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Prologue

An introduction to a story, most frequently associated with drama

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Episode

An incident presented as one continuous action