Oedipus Rex Literary Terms Review Question Preview (ID: 22065)


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a long speech by one character on stage to an audience
a) dialogue
b) soliloquy
c) monologue
d) aside

a feeling of emotional connection to the struggles of a character
a) pathos
b) logos
c) ethos
d) rhetoric

a group of actors who sing together to help tell the narrative
a) antistrophe
b) chorus
c) strophe
d) protagonist

the reader or audience knows something a character does not
a) irony
b) situational irony
c) verbal irony
d) dramatic irony

a play in which a main character suffers a downfall due to flaws
a) tragedy
b) comedy
c) history
d) romance

a sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstances, especially in a tragedy
a) peripeteia
b) en media res
c) foreshadowing
d) tragedy

while singing this choral song, the choral song, the chorus moved from right to left
a) chorus
b) antistrophe
c) strophe
d) prologue

a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine
a) en media res
b) hamartia
c) dramatic irony
d) foreshadowing

excessive pride
a) hubris
b) conflict
c) vanity
d) tragic flaw

the personality trait that leads to the downfall of the protagonist
a) tragic flaw
b) en media res
c) peripeteia
d) hubris

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