3603267684 | dithyramb | a wild choral hymn of ancient Greece, especially one dedicated to Dionysus. a passionate or inflated speech, poem, or other writing | 0 | |
3603267685 | Hubris | exaggerated self-pride/confidence | 1 | |
3603267686 | Hestia | [Vesta] Goddess of the hearth or fireplace. | ![]() | 2 |
3603267687 | Hera | [Juno] The goddess of Marriage and married women. | ![]() | 3 |
3603267688 | Demeter | [Ceres] Goddess of agriculture. | ![]() | 4 |
3603267689 | Poseidon | [Neptune] God of the sea. | ![]() | 5 |
3603267690 | Hades | [Pluto] The god of the underworld and of the dead. | ![]() | 6 |
3603267691 | Zeus | [Jupiter] The ruler of the gods and also the god of the sky and rain. | ![]() | 7 |
3603267692 | Hephaestus | [Vulcan] The god of the fire and forge. | ![]() | 8 |
3603267693 | Aphrodite | [Venus] The goddess of love, sex, desire, and beauty. | ![]() | 9 |
3603267694 | Ares | [Mars] The violent god of war. | ![]() | 10 |
3603267695 | Athena | [Minerva] The goddess of war and wisdom. | ![]() | 11 |
3603267696 | Hermes | [Mercury] The messenger of the gods. The god of thieves and commerce. | ![]() | 12 |
3603267697 | Apollo | [Apollo] The god of music, healing, light, and truth. | ![]() | 13 |
3603267698 | Artemis | [Diana] The huntress, goddess of wild things, Chastity, and of women in childbirth. | ![]() | 14 |
3603267699 | Pan | [Faunas] The goat god, protector of woods and shepherds. | ![]() | 15 |
3603267700 | Dionysus | [Bacchus] The god of wine and fertility. | ![]() | 16 |
3603267701 | invective | insulting, abusive, or highly critical language. | 17 | |
3603267702 | inversion | also called anastrophe, in literary style and rhetoric, the syntactic reversal of the normal order of the words and phrases in a sentence | 18 | |
3603267703 | irony -dramatic | irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play. | 19 | |
3603267704 | irony-situation | irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected | 20 | |
3603267705 | irony-verbal | irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning. | 21 | |
3603267706 | mood | a distinctive emotional quality or character: | 22 | |
3603267707 | paradox | a self-contradictory and false proposition. | 23 | |
3603267708 | proverb | a wise saying or precept; a didactic sentence. | 24 | |
3603267709 | pun | the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words. | 25 | |
3603267710 | sarcasm | harsh or bitter derision or irony. | 26 | |
3603267711 | satire | the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. | 27 | |
3603267712 | slang | the use of different tone of voice and diction | 28 | |
3603267713 | tone | a particular quality, way of sounding, modulation, or intonation of the voice as expressive of some meaning, feeling, spirit, etc.: | 29 | |
3603267714 | voice | an expressed opinion or choice | 30 | |
3603267715 | rising action | series of interest in a plot to get to the greatest | 31 | |
3603267716 | scene | place where action or event occurs | 32 | |
3603267717 | soliloquy | the act of talking to him/herself | 33 | |
3603267718 | tragedy | a fatal event | 34 | |
3603267719 | tragic flaw | the character defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy; hamartia | 35 | |
3603267720 | villain | a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel. | 36 | |
3603267721 | atmosphere | a surrounding or pervading mood, environment, or influence | 37 | |
3603267722 | colloquial | characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal. | 38 | |
3603267723 | connotation | something suggested or implied by a word or thing, rather than being explicitly named or described | 39 | |
3603267724 | denotation | the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression | 40 | |
3603267725 | dialect | a special variety of a language | 41 | |
3603267726 | dialogue | convo | 42 | |
3603267727 | diction | style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words | 43 | |
3603267728 | epigram | a short, often satirical poem dealing concisely with a single subject and usually ending with a witty or ingenious turn of thought. | 44 | |
3603267729 | act | to take action or do something | 45 | |
3603267730 | antagonist | person who actively opposes | 46 | |
3603267731 | aside | to one side/out of the way | 47 | |
3603267732 | catastrophe | bad thing that happens | 48 | |
3603267733 | catharsis | process of relieving strong or repressed emotions | 49 | |
3603267734 | character | a person in the story | 50 | |
3603267735 | stock | usually criticized as cliche characters | 51 | |
3603267736 | static | non-changing chracters | 52 | |
3603267737 | comic relief | comic episodes in a dramatic or literary work | 53 | |
3603267738 | end-stopped line | when a line of poetry ends with a period or definite punctuation mark, such as a colon. When lines are end-stopped, each line is its own phrase or unit of syntax. So when you read an end-stopped line, you'll naturally pause. | 54 | |
3603267739 | enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | 55 | |
3603267740 | epic | a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation. | 56 | |
3603267741 | euphony | the quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words. | 57 | |
3603267742 | iamb | a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable | 58 | |
3603267743 | image | a simile or metaphor. (representation) | 59 | |
3603267744 | in medias res | Latin for "into the middle of things." It usually describes a narrative that begins, not at the beginning of a story, but somewhere in the middle — usually at some crucial point in the action. | 60 | |
3603267745 | lyric | expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms. | 61 | |
3603267746 | measure | consider (one's words or actions) carefully. | 62 | |
3603267747 | octave | a poem or stanza of eight lines; an octet | 63 | |
3603267748 | ode | a lyric poem (meant to be sung) | 64 | |
3608282734 | Hamartia | the flaw in character which leads to the downfall of the protagonist in tragedy | 65 | |
3608287342 | Stichomythic dialogue | a form of dialogue originating in Greek drama in which single lines are uttered by alternate speakers | 66 | |
3608295090 | peripetia | a sudden turn of events or an unexpected reversal, especially in a literary work | 67 | |
3608299549 | skene | a structure facing the audience and forming the background before which performances were given | 68 | |
3608309087 | anagnorisis | the critical moment of recognition or discovery, especially peripeteia | 69 | |
3608313657 | strophe | the part of an ancient Greek choral ode answering a previous strophe, sung by the chorus when returning from left to right | 70 | |
3608320266 | antistrophe | the part of an ancient Greek choral ode sung by the chorus when moving from left to right | 71 | |
3608337058 | bathos | a ludicrous descent from the exalted or lofty to the common place; anticlimax | 72 | |
3608347022 | pathos | the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature or other forms of expression of evoking feeling or pity or compassion | 73 | |
3608356341 | chorus | a group of actors the performed the chorus and served as major participants | 74 | |
3608369775 | parados | two broad aisles; the entrance song of the chorus | 75 | |
3608372392 | choragus | the leader of a dramatic chorus | 76 | |
3608374001 | archetype | original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or based; a collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc. | 77 | |
3608396145 | Theatron | the seeing place | 78 | |
3608397504 | orchestra | dancing place | 79 | |
3608403253 | parados | aisles where the chorus enters | 80 | |
3608406140 | hubris | exaggerated pride | 81 | |
3608409747 | proskenion | platform that separated the actors from the chorus | 82 | |
3608414578 | chiton | long, flowing robe | 83 | |
3608415952 | cothurni | platform shoes | 84 | |
3608418772 | properties | props | 85 | |
3608420210 | everyman | generalized characters | 86 | |
3608421663 | mask | megaphone, distinguished the role (age, sex, nood, rank) | 87 | |
3608439990 | persona | mask | 88 |
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