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- 3. How speech reveals character
- 5. in Greek means dance
- 8. comes from the Greek verb meaning “to do” or “to act.”
- 13. A creature in classical mythology who was part man and part goat
- 14. Greek drama was presented at festivals honoring the god
- 15. In the middle of the orchestra was placed a
- 17. The major festival was the
- 18. Song sung by chorus should be part of the plot
- 19. The slope of the hill served as the
- 21. reserved for the Priest of Dionysus
- 24. the origin of our word scene
- 25. defined the word tragedy in his work Poetics.
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- 1. A flat terrace below the slope served as the
- 2. part lion, part eagle, and part woman
- 4. A tragic hero is a man of
- 6. Dionysus was the god of
- 7. one of the four greek performers that did not speak
- 9. derived from his name, is still used to refer to actors today.
- 10. Usage of words to express thought
- 11. “an act of injustice”
- 12. Increased the number of actors in plays from two to three
- 16. ancient Greek word for a king who did not inherit their throne, but had taken it
- 20. Literary critics attribute the fall of the hero to a
- 22. Something to shock the audience
- 23. first thing a tragedy should contain according to aristotle