Vocabulary Practice

1. Flaw A personal weakness that brings about the fall of a character in a tragedy
4. Art of rendering speech or writing into another language
5. a story that explains objects or events in nature as resulting from the action of some supernatural force or entity, most often a god
7. A situation in which something is known by the reader or audience but unknown to the characters
8. the act of presenting materials that hint at events to occur later in the story
10. an element that recurs in one or more works of literature or art
11. story coming down from the past, often based on real events or characters from older times
12. A work of literature that tells the story of the fall of a person of high status

2. Order events that are written in the order that they occur
3. a brief story passed by word of mouth from generation to generation
6. Act of writing down words originally on audiotape or other format
9. Conversation involving two or more people or characters
10. 9 daughters of Zeus & Mnemosyne; believed to inspire aspects of the arts and sciences