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| 6187366369 | strophe | the first section of a Greek choral ode or a division of it | 0 | |
| 6187366370 | antistrophe | the second section of a Greek choral ode or a division of it | 1 | |
| 6187366371 | episode | a major section of the play | 2 | |
| 6187366372 | stasimon | A section performed by the orchestra that requires dancing, singing, or chanting | 3 | |
| 6187366373 | chorus | A collection of people who commented on the action of the play with son, dance, and chanting | 4 | |
| 6187366374 | catharsis | End or goal of a tragic work. Literally means to vomit emotions | 5 | |
| 6187366375 | hamartia | A major flaw of a character | 6 | |
| 6187366376 | hubris | A common characteristic of characters in Greek tragedies. It means arrogant or insolent. | 7 | |
| 6187366377 | stichomythia | The swift one line interchanges between characters in dialogue. | 8 | |
| 6187366378 | prologue | A speech that is given before the start of the main plot of the play | 9 | |
| 6187366379 | parados | An entrance on either side of a Greek theater | 10 | |
| 6187366380 | exodus | The final scene, departure, or exit in a tragedy | 11 | |
| 6187366381 | kommos | A lamenting song in Greek tragedy that is usually sung by a main character and the chorus. | 12 | |
| 6187366382 | ode | A song that is typically accompanied by a dance | 13 | |
| 6187366383 | protagonist | The main "hero" figure in the play, regardless of how flawed | 14 | |
| 6187366384 | antagonist | The opposing force in the play | 15 | |
| 6187366385 | dithyramb | An ode that is sung or chanted in order to honor Dionysus | 16 | |
| 6187366386 | trilogy | Three plays that were prepared for the Greek drama festivals | 17 | |
| 6187366387 | satyr | A play that typically followed the trilogy where the plot is comical in order to lighten the mood after the three tragedies | 18 | |
| 6187366388 | muthos | A tragic plot | 19 | |
| 6187366389 | mimesis | A representation of life, or the plot of a work | 20 | |
| 6187366390 | peripeteia | The reversal of a situation | 21 | |
| 6187366391 | anagnorisis | A dramatic realization or recognition of something | 22 | |
| 6187366392 | pathos | Suffering that a character endures | 23 | |
| 6187366393 | melos | A melody in a song | 24 | |
| 6187403581 | parallelism | the use of similar verbal structure in succession in poetry or prose | 25 | |
| 6187412181 | repetition | the repeated use of the same words or phrases in order to emphasize an idea's importance or make it more clear | 26 | |
| 6187422249 | rhetorical questions | when a character asks themselves a question when the answer is obvious. This is to emphasize a point or make an idea more clear. | 27 | |
| 6187435239 | metaphor | a comparison between two ideas without using like or as. | 28 | |
| 6187441475 | apostrophe | a figure of speech that is used to detach a character from him or herself and address an imaginary character in their speech. | 29 | |
| 6187459511 | self-address | when a character says something to him or herself | 30 | |
| 6187463746 | alliteration | a repeated consonant sound in words or a phrase of words that are closely connected. | 31 | |
| 6187471429 | pun | a joke that exploits the different meanings of a word or two words that sound the same, but have different meanings. | 32 | |
| 6187487944 | simile | a comparison using like or as | 33 | |
| 6187492076 | foil characters | two characters that are opposites of each other. | 34 | |
| 6187496028 | stock characters | a stereotypical character that an audience can recognize, and often becomes the target of cliches or criticisms. | 35 | |
| 6187511358 | motif | an idea, picture, or symbol that is repeated throughout a work | 36 | |
| 6187514182 | paradox | an absurd or contradictory statement that upon further investigation is found to be true. | 37 | |
| 6187525489 | allusions | references to things outside of the literary work | 38 | |
| 6187532224 | aside | when a characters says something that is not supposed to be heard by the other character(s) on stage | 39 | |
| 6187540711 | comic relief | a humorous interlude in a serious work of literature | 40 | |
| 6187546165 | conflict | a struggle between two opposing forces | 41 | |
| 6187549292 | foil | opposite | 42 | |
| 6187550920 | idiom | a set expression or phrase of two or more words. | 43 | |
| 6187561902 | inciting incident | the decision that starts a story's problem. When the events become the story and not the backstory. | 44 | |
| 6187572273 | juxtaposition | two things placed, said, or seen close together that are contrasting to each other. | 45 | |
| 6187582629 | oxymoron | when two contradictory words are placed together in the same phrase. | 46 | |
| 6187586824 | paraphrase | a summary | 47 | |
| 6187589216 | reversal | when a situation is the exact opposite of how it started or once was. | 48 | |
| 6187594756 | soliloquy | a speech that is spoken REGARDLESS of who else might hear. | 49 | |
| 6187608962 | irony | when something happens that is the opposite of what is expected. | 50 | |
| 6187612305 | couplet | when two rhyming lines are placed after each other: Jimmy is a man Who has a clever plan | 51 | |
| 6187622893 | blank verse | when there is no rhyming structure, such as unrhymed iambic pentameter | 52 | |
| 6187638046 | rhyming verse | when lines have a rhyming structure. The most common form is rhymed iambic pentameter | 53 | |
| 6187641641 | antithesis | a person or thing that is the direct opposite of another thing | 54 |
