Flashcards in Literary terms 1 Deck (10):
Excessive pride of self-confidence that leads a protagonist you disregarded define warning or violate an important moral law
A purgation of the emotion of pity and fear by the audience at the end of a tragedy
Send reversal of the situation
Feud ex machina
Latin for God out of a machine in Greek drama do you serve a God lowered by mechanism of this some sort onto the stage to resurrect a hero or untangle the plot.
The good are rewarded and the evil punished. The punishment fits the crime.
An action or error in judgment that results from the tragic flaw.
A discrepancy between what a character says or believes in what the reader or audience knows to be true
A form of dramatic irony in tragedies such as Oedipus in which the protagonist is words or actions ironically return to hurt them in the end
The opening speech or dialogue of play especially a classic greek play is the exposition necessary to the following subsequent actions