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| The goddess or the power regarded as inspiring a poet, artist, thinker, or the like. |
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| The spirit of moral order and fair judgement |
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| Excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance. |
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| A class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like. |
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| A long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style |
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| In or into the middle of events or a narrative. |
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| To conjure or ask for help and a muse in greek mythos was a female goddess or spirit that would inspire the creative process. |
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| Any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality |
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| A simile developed over several lines of verse, especially one used in an epic poem. |
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| Something that contains such a list or record, as a book, leaflet, or file. |
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| Interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc |
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| The purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, especially through certain kinds of art, as tragedy or music. |
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| A structure facing the audience and forming the background before which performances were given. |
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| A group of performers on various musical instruments, including especially stringed instruments of the viol class, clarinets and flutes, cornets and trombones, drums, and cymbals, for playing music, as symphonies, operas, popular music, or other compositions. |
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| An ode sung by the chorus at their entrance, usually beginning the play and preceding the proagōn in comedy or the alteration of epeisodia and stasima in tragedy. |
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| A going out; a departure or emigration, usually of a large number of people: the summer exodus to the country and shore. |
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| An incident, scene, etc., within a narrative, usually fully developed and either integrated within the main story or digressing from it. |
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| A choral ode, especially in tragedy, divided into strophe and antistrophe: usually alternating with the epeisodion and, in the final ode, preceding the exodos. |
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| A lyric poem, believed to have been in dithyrambic form, that was sung and danced to, originally as a religious rite, by a company of persons. |
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| A story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious. |
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| A dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically that of a great person destined through a flaw of character or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate or society, to downfall or destruction. |
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| Also called storyline. the plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story. |
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| The locale or period in which the action of a novel, play, film, etc., takes place. |
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| The leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work. |
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| The adversary of the hero or protagonist of a drama or other literary work. |
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| An ideal distribution of rewards and punishments such as is common in some poetry and fiction. |
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| To show or indicate beforehand. |
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| Irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play. |
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| Giving inanimate objects human-like qualities. |
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| An incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication. |
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| A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance. |
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| Figurative description or illustration. |
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| A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |
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| A digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea. |
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| A figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect. |
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| Doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention. |
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| A simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group. |
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| The original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype. |
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| The way an author communicates a feeling or attitude toward the subject he is writing about. |
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