Lit Hum
Terms
undefined, object
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- homeric similie
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vehicle: the image being used
tenor: the actual thing being described/compared - trope
- in literature, a phrase, words, or images that are repeated
- proem
- introductory verses
- aristeia
- a zeroing in of a specific character's battle
- arete
- prowess; specialty
- time
- honor
- kudos
- the property of having success and going forth as a victor; (can result in kleos)
- kleos
- glory; fame
- menis/menin
- the wrath of gods (or Achilleus, used with no other mortal)
- nostos/nostai
- homecoming
- ate
- irrational behavior
- ekphrasis
- verbal description of a work of visual art (i.e., Homer's ekphrasis of Achilleus' armor)
- etiology
- tells a stor and explains the origin of something
- embedded narrative
- when the narrator gives the story to a character to tell
- metis
- cunning intelligence
- reversed similie
- something being compaired to something else that it does not seem likely to have anything to do with
- topos
- a commonplace thing that different writers keep coming back to (kleos/nostos)
- dramatic irony
- something a character does or says that leads the reader to know more of what will happen that the character himself knows
- deus ex machina
- the solution to a problem coming from left field...from a " "
- nomos
- law; custom
- telos
- the end, in the sense of the purpose for which one does something
- tisis
- retributive justice
- koros
- satisfaction
- hubris
- pride that leads one to do something outrages b/c one is satisfied with one's situation (koros) and wants more
- nemesis
- retribution
- skene
- wooden roof type thing representing a house/palace onstage
- parados
- enter on stage
- exodus
- exit off stage
- emblem
- sybolic representation (agamemnon's walking on the robes...symbolic of what he has already done)
- catharsis
- cleansing or purging through some means (in this case, a play)
- (aristotle's def of) tragedy
- a machine that helps the audience feel catharsis through pity or terror
- plot
- the best kind of tragedies have reversals and recongitions and they happen through the same action, simultaneously
- perpeteia
- change of fortune
- hamartia
- missing the mark through an "error"
- error
- an unintentional act that is not morally bad (b/c it is not intentional) but is still devastating
- eros
- sexual love
- thumos
- the spirited part of a person (medea, odysseus telling his heart to calm down, his " ")
- ascetic
- denying the needs of the body
- aporia
- (reaching) the point of self contradiction; realizing that your own position seems rediculous to you and contradictory to what you actually believe or to your behavior