How Tragic
Rhetoric
Characters
quote ID
Bill S
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

Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep and urine 

the porter in macbeth 

100

Shakespeare was from this country 

England 

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

Shakespeare's plays were performed at this theatre 

the globe

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 put on Macbeth for this king 

King James VI

400

They dance around and sing songs 

the chorus 

400

Rhetoric is a powerful tool

metaphor

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

This play, also by Shakespeare, concerns two doomed lovers

Romeo and Juliet

500

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

hamartia 

500

Rhetoric is like a pair of glasses that will help you see through language

simile 

500

He is thew prophet of Thebes

Teresias 

500

Therein the patient must minister to himself 

the doctor

500

He invented this theatrical device, where a character speaks to themselves 

Soliloquy