Character
What is exposition?
The tragic flaw of a tragic hero
What is harmatia?
Type of drama sung in the Latin and performed in the church
What are liturgical dramas?
The leader of the Greek theatre
What is the choragos?
What a character does or does not do
What is action?
The moment of the play at which the main action of the plot begins
What is the point of attack?
The reversal of fortune in a tragedy
What is peripeteia?
What are the cycle plays?
The major festival honouring the Greek god of fertility
What is the City Dionysia?
What are biological traits?
The first incident leading to the rising action of the play
What is an initiating incident?
The purging of emotions as a result of the tragedy's evocation of melancholy and fear
What is catharsis?
Allegorical plays designed to teach the faithful that acts of Christian charity are necessary for entry into heaven
What are morality plays?
The choric rituals used in religious ceremonies to honour Dionysus
What are dithyrambs?
A character that extremely realistic and speaks in a "real life" manner
The dramatic structure used in Greek Tragedy
What is climatic structure?
The rational process behind a tragic character's actions that illustrate the themes of the play
What is thought (as defined by Artistotle)?
An Easter trope
What is "Quem quaeritis"?
Supposedly the first ancient Greek playwright who added an actor to the dithyrambic chorus
Thespis
A character that contrasts another character in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character
What is a foil?
A dramatic structure used in Renaissance Drama where two plot lines are given equal emphasis and are introduced independently
What is a mirror pattern?
The moment of recognition for a tragic hero
What is anagnorisis?
The light hearted farcical performances to relieve the tedium of the Mystery and Morality plays
What are interludes?
"the seeing place" from where the audience could view Greek theatre
What is the theatron?