How Tragic
Rhetoric
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quote ID
Ohringer Lore
100

This philosopher invented most of the terms by which we understand tragedy 

Aristotle 

100

100 percent of people who study rhetoric go on to be geniuses

logos 

100

She doesn't want to bury her brother! 

Ismene 

100

Fair is foul, and foul is fair 

the three witches 

100

He comes from this state 

MA

200
This tragedian wrote Antigone 

Sophoccles 

200
A Harvard professor named Doctor Rhetohringer says studying rhetoric and tragedy will help students become better readers 

ethos 

200
He tells us the ship of state is safe 

Creon

200

Never shake they gory locks at me!

MAcbeth

200

He is this much older than his sibling 

11 minutes 

300

Creon exhibited this flaw of excessive pride 

hubris 

300

If you don't master rhetoric, you will be quite pathetic, sad, and lonely 

pathos 

300

Out, out damned spot! 

Lady Macbeth 

300

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face

Duncan

300

He lived for 7 years in this place

Iowa

400

They dance around and sing songs 

the chorus 

400

This device uses repetition at the start of a line/sentence 

anaphora 

400

He is antigone's father and brother 

Oedipus 

400

So thanks to all at once and to each one, whom we invite to see us crowned at scone

malcom

400
What does he write? 

Fiction and/or short stories

500

This is a flaw, a tragic flaw that will undo you!

hamartia 

500

This device uses repetition in groups of 3

tricolon 

500

He is the prophet of Thebes

Teresias 

500

all my pretty ones?
Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?
What, all my pretty chickens and their dam
At one fell swoop?

macduff

500

This is his favorite band 

radiohead

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