Greek Tragedy
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- Synecdoche
- Calling the part by the name of the whole or the whole by the name of the part
- Dionysia
- the festival dedicated to Dionysus at the end of March at which tragedy was performed
- Simile
- A comparison using "like," "as," or some other explicit signal of comparison
- Protagonist
- the principal actor in the tragedy
- Strophe
- A unit of an ode always matched by another unit like it in meter (During the strophe the chorus dances to the right.)
- Parodos
- entrance song, the song sung by the chorus when they enter
- Irony
- Saying one thing and meaning the opposite.
- Stichomythia
- ("line-speech") — a rapid, highly stylized dialogue between two characters, with each speaking one line in turn.
- Episode
- a scene between two choral songs in Greek tragedy
- Antistrophe
- The unit of an ode that follows the strophe when the chorus dances to the left
- Meter
- The pattern of long and short (or accented and unaccented) syllables organizing the sound of each line of poetry
- Apostrophe
- Addressing someone or something not present as if present
- Metonymy
- Calling something by the name of something else next to it, or attached to it, or associated with it
- Prologue
- the first scene(s) of a play prior to the entrance of the chorus
- Stasimon
- an ode or song of the chorus punctuating the episodes, sung after the actors have left the stage and commenting directly or indirectly on what just occurred
- Metaphor
- Calling something by the name of something else it resembles
- Dramatic Irony
- A character says something, believing it to be true, which the audience knows is false.