Aristotle's Greek Tragedy
A Tragedy produces this emotion.
What is Catharsis??
Name the last stage on the classical plot structure map and define it.
What is the resolution??( the story's conclusion)
The priest is doing this at the beginning of the play.
What is asking the gods for help to stop the plague??
This person gave Oedipus to Polybus and Merope when he was a baby.
Who is the messenger ??
Medea poisoned this to give to Jason's wife.
What is a robe and a crown ??
A Tragedy is a drama that has ____ plot(s) ??
What is one plot?
Name the first and third stages on the classical plot structure map and define them.
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What is the incentive moment??(the beginning)
And what is the climax?? (the point of no return for the hero)
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Laius was murdered when he was ___.
What is traveling to Delphi??
The people of Thebes originally thought ____ killed Laius.
What are robbers???
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This is where Medea and her children reside.
What is Corinth??
A Tragic hero's fatal flaw is a ____.
What is a virtue performed in excess?
Name the the reversal of events (not the climax, but the surprising turn of events in a story), and what stage it is on the classical plot structure map.
What is Peripeteia?? (2nd stage)
The Oracle at Delphi told Creon that ___.
What is the killer of Laius must be found to save the city ??
The fate of Oedipus even before his birth.
What is that he would grow up to kill his father and marry is mother ??
Medea had ___ many children, and ___ happens to them at the end of the play.
What is 2?? (Medea kills them)
Name the three things that make up the classical tragic unity circle.
What are Place, Time, and Action ??
Name the fifth stage on the classical plot structure map and define it.
What is catastrophe??(the final demise of the protagonist)
Jocasta does this while Oedipus is gone.
What is lock herself in her room and commit suicide??
This happened after the murder of Laius.
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This is the name of the King of Corinth's daughter, and it is important because ____.
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What is Glauce ?? (because Jason betroths himself to Glauce)
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Aristotle's definition of Tragedy
what is an "imitation of an action that is serious and also, having magnitude, complete in itself with appropriate and pleasurable language" (Aristotle).
Name what stage the protagonist's realization is called, and what stage it is on the classical plot structure map.
What is Anagnorisis?? (stage 4)
These two things happen to Oedipus at the end of the play.
What is he stabs himself in the eyes, and what is he is banished from Thebes
The messenger brings ___ news from Corinth, and ___ is Jocasta's reaction to this news.
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What is that Polybus is dead, and what is that Jocasta begs Oedipus to stop asking questions
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Medea was awarded ____ place in the Dionysia festival in 431 BCE.
What is Fourth Place??