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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water
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English
10th Grade
12/10/2007

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Theatron
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where the audience sits
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Orchestra
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Dance place 4 chorus
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Skene
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Backdrop of raised platform
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Parados
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Entrances used by chorus
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Proscenium
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Where acting is
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Thepis
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First Recognized playwright
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Aeschylus
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two actors
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Sophocles
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Third Actor
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Stichomythia
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Alternating single forms of dialogue
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Hubris
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excessive pride
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anagorisis
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the point of recognition of truth "ah ha"
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catharsis
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The arrosal of pity and fear in the audience and the purging of these emotions
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antecendent action
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action that takes place before the play opens
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dramatic iorny
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the audience knows something the character doesn't
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Vicarious Action
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What happened in the imagination told from stage
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foil
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a character that has opposite traits of another
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incest
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sexual relations between family members
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parracide
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killing of one's father
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tragic flaw
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the inperfection that causes the protagonist's downfall
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motif
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reacuring object or idea
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iorny of situation
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opposite of what's expected
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verbal iorny
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sarcasm
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unity of place, action, time
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all events have one place, plot, and day
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prologue
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opening scene
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parados
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entrance of the chorus
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episode
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acts
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stasima
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poems, chants
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exodos
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final act of the play
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Chorus
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Dispense advice, reflect the feelings of the audience, set the mood, add color, important to the rhythmic movement of the play
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Sophocles view on man's place
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Man must accept responsibility for his acts
Reverence and humility led to human happiness
Oedispus sinned by trying to put himself above the gods' divine will
Man has free will but exists within a system of limitations
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Persona
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mask
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ideal protagonist
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a man who is highly renowned and pwosperous bu tone who isnot pre eminetlu cirtupus and just whose mismfortune by vice or depravity but by some error of jusgment frailty
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