Terminology of Tragedy: AP Literature Flashcards

7848300443	anagorism	the moment of recognition in a tragedy/ movement from ignorance or pride to self knowledge	0
7848319474	arete	excellence particular to one thing	1
7848322665	catharsis	emotional purgation felt by the audience of a tragedy	2
7848326995	chthonic	the underground world; the subconscious; the mythic dimension; the collective unconscious	3
7848335811	chorus	represents the community; plays it safe/the tragic hero is isolated from the community	4
7848358120	dike	the law of the gods; pure justice; the balance of things	5
7848366968	erinyes	the furies, female earth-powers who avenge wrongs, especially of innocent women	6
7848386827	Eudaimonia	the deep happiness that comes from living virtuously and moving toward one's telos throughout life; the happiness that comes from the accumulated momentum of responsible excellence that one has built through living one's life; the richest and happiness possible for a human, attaining profound quantities of internal, external, and narrative goods	7
7848427866	hamartia	the tragic flaw, usually hubris	8
7854254128	hubris	pride in self that violates the prerogative of the gods; produces incomprehensible nameless suffering	9
7854552775	lex talionis	law of the talon; i.e.., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; blood revenge	10
7854552776	liminal	having to do with thresholds from one world to another	11
7854558820	logos	the word; the power of argument and logic and the enfleshment of thought in language	12
7854628162	physis	the forces of nature; unrestricted passion	13
7854633260	moira	individual fate	14
7854637704	nomos	human laws instituted by a city; designated distinction between polis and physis	15
7854673564	ob skena	off stage; violent events too terrible to look at take place there	16
7854677049	oikos	the household; center of family	17
7854679381	ontology	that which questions the meaning or reason for being itself	18
7854683009	peripeteia	the moment of reversal in a tragedy	19
7854686667	polis	the good city of man ruled by law	20
7854689690	sophrosyne	balanced in life; the "golden mean," all things in proportion	21
7854693408	telos	the end toward which community or an individual wishes to go; teleological questions ask "what do we wish as people or as a community to become or accomplish in the end?"	22
7854744025	themis	right balance (connected with nature and linked to ecology)	23