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World Literature last test
World Literature key words to know
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Undergraduate 1
11/18/2008

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Hubris
Definition
Excessive or overweening pride
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Dramatic Irony
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Hector has been killed but, Andromache is preparing a hot bath
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Odyssesus: Hubris
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Odyssesus revealing his name to the Cyclops so that the fiant would know who outsmarted him
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Tragic Hero
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Oedipus who falls from a noble stature
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Myth
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A way ancient peoples used to explain natural occurences or beliefs
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Comedy
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chaos --> order
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Tradgedy
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order --> Chaos
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Archetype
Definition
a work that involves action taking place as a spectacle across a confined plass
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Catharsis
Definition
The emotional effect a drama like Oedipus can have on an audience
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Another example of tradgedy
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Achilles rage and Oedipus Hubris
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Archetype
Definition
basic patterns of behavior, person, or character that are universal, and that everyone can understand or commiserate with
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Lauis
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Oedpipus father, recieved an oracle that he would be killed by his son.
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Jocasta
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Oedipus mother and wife. Asks Oedipus to "call of the search" for the mystery of his birth
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Tiresias
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Tells Oedipus he is the cause of the plague
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Polybus
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King of Corinth: News od this character's death temporarily reassures Oedipus and Jocasta
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Oedipus becomes king of this land, where he rules with Jocasta his wife
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Thebes
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Corinth
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Raised in Corinth as a prince: the land where Oedipus' adoptive parents rule
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Dionysus
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god in whose honor tragedies and comedies were performed in Ancient Greece.
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Oracle at Delphi
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Tells creon they msut solve the murder of the previous king to stop the plague
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