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| you hear the voice of the narrator and characters |
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| only hear the voice of the characters |
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| ordering of events within play/everything that fills in the world of the play |
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| a tragedy should take place in one revolution of the sun/24 hour play |
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| Tragedy was for _____. Comedy was for ______. |
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| Aristotle's six elements of tragedy, arranged in order of importance. |
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| plot, character, thought, diction, song, spectacle |
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| a sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstance |
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| The process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions. |
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| god comes down at end and sets everything straight |
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| can be right or wrong based on evidence |
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| a victory that comes at such a great cost that it doesn't feel like a victory |
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| to point out social ills and to serve as a corrective |
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| greek spread of culture throughout the world |
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| art that requires one to be sophisticated or "in the know" |
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| don't need to go in with prior knowlege to "get it" |
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| the fates of households... and everything works out in the end |
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| have a flaw that leads to their downfall |
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| are flawed but have no downfall |
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| things that new comedies involve |
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| mistaken identities, overheard convos, people hiding behind doors, young lovers kept apart by a father, slapstick, people coming in and out of doors at the right or wrong time, at the end... the lovers are able to get together because something is revealed about one of them that allows it to happen |
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good - looking at historical context
bad - looking just at words on page without thinking about what it meant at the time it was written |
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| likesness to truth, appears to be true |
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| people should act appropriately to their stations |
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| truth is acquired through the accumulation of surface details |
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| go the extra mile to appear to be true |
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| didn't involve any extraneous details |
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