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| 3122890980 | catharsis | terror and pity that tragedy produces to cleanse audience | 0 | |
| 3122892373 | hamartia | hero's tragic flaw | 1 | |
| 3122892374 | hubris | human pride; almost always the hamartia in a tragic hero | 2 | |
| 3122903828 | mimesis | imitation of life | 3 | |
| 3122905467 | tragedy | deals with emotional matters; an imitation of life through the actions of men that evoke feelings of pity and terror because the audience finds them relatable; the end result is important bc you gain knowledge | 4 | |
| 3122919385 | manners | how a character acts; characterizes a person (your actions define who you are) | 5 | |
| 3122923424 | sentiments | what a character says; characterizes a person | 6 | |
| 3122927365 | fable | plot | 7 | |
| 3122933479 | revolutions | a needed action that changes the course of the plot; turning point that leads to the contrary | 8 | |
| 3122937084 | magnitude | necessary end element of tragedy which declares that in order for something to be a tragedy, it has to mean something or carry weight; there's something to be learned/you can get something out of it | 9 | |
| 3122946933 | beginning | doesn't need anything before it, but needs something after it | 10 | |
| 3122953384 | middle | requires action to precede and follow it | 11 | |
| 3122953385 | end | requires previous explanation, but nothing to follow it | 12 | |
| 3122956114 | tragic hero | a character that evokes pity or terror; could also evoke passion | 13 | |
| 3122959109 | complication | events prior to the plot and the events that are the rest of the action before the plot takes a turn (all actions leading to the main revolution) | 14 | |
| 3122965970 | development | the actions when the plot takes a turn and all the events after until the end. (actions post-main revolution) | 15 | |
| 3122971511 | epic imitation | a narrative that includes multiple simultaneous incidents/events (something that doesn't occur in a tragedy); differs from tragedy in length and meter | 16 |
