Parts of the Play
Type of poem or song performed by the chorus that has three parts: strophe, antistrophe, and epode.
What is an ode?
Who was Aristotle?
The place where the spectators sat to watch the theatre competitions.
What is the theatron?
The leader of the chorus who often paid the cost of the productions.
What is the Choragus?
A group of actors whose songs or chants would provide commentary on the action of the play.
What is the Chorus?
Part of the play when a main character makes a critical discovery.
What is the Anagnorisis?
This is the part where actors would enter and exit the stage.
What is the Parados?
A type of Literature that imitates serious action and that stirs pity and fear in the audience.
What is Tragedy?
A character's tragic flaw or weakness that leads to his downfall.
What is Hamartia?
The first choral ode in a Greek drama.
What is the Parados?
The playwright of the play, Oedipus Rex
Who is Sophocles?
The area of the stage behind the orchestra that served as a dressing room and allowed characters to change clothes or masks.
What is the skene?
The purging of strong emotions (particularly pity or fear) through art.
What is catharsis?
A celebration that occurred twice a year in Athens, Greece. There was a competition between 3 tragedies and 3 comedies.
What was the Dionysian Festival?
The first part of a choral ode performed while the chorus moved from the right side of the stage to the left.
What is the strophe?
Aristotle was his personal tutor.
Who was Alexander the Great?
A small alter, usually dedicated to Dionysus, located in the center of the orchestra.
What is the Thymele?
The Greek Word for the Reversal - a sudden change of fortune or circumstances.
What is Peripeteia?
Name 3 of the 6 components of a Tragedy.
What is Plot, Character, Diction, Thought, Spectacle, and Song?
The second part of a choral ode performed while the chorus moved from the left side of the stage to the right.
What is the Antistrophe?
Who was the first person to break out of the chorus and act out the narration? Actors today are referred to a name that is in recognition of this person.
Who was Thespis?
Name three parts of the Greek Theatre.
What is the Theatron, Orchestra, Thymele, Skene, Parados?
What is the Greek word for Recognition - when the principal character makes a discovery.
What is Anagorisis?
Two reasons the actors wore masks (other than becoming a character).
1. To amplify their voice.
2. To better portray the emotional state of the character.