Anagnorisis greek an-ag-nawr-uh-sis nohr-\ noun ancient tragedy critical - Hard English Vocabulary

Back	anagnorisis \an-ag-NAWR-uh-sis, -NOHR-\
Front	noun (in ancient Greek tragedy) The critical moment of recognition or discovery, especially preceding peripeteia. [Anagnorisis comes from the Greek word anagnōrí(zein) which meant "to know again." This concept is discussed in Aristotle's Poetics.] In terms of anagnorisis, the mythic, tragic realisation that prophecies were correct is only really the case for fictional characters, yet it is a continually attractive idea for those of us who know that our lives don't have a plot. - Alice Bennett, Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction , 2012 Tragedy and comedy both deal in errors of perception and their unveiling, a device known since the Greeks as anagnorisis . - David Bellos, Jacques Tati , 1999

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anagnorisis \an-ag-NAWR-uh-sis, -NOHR-\

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(in ancient Greek tragedy) The critical moment of recognition or discovery, especially preceding peripeteia.

[Anagnorisis comes from the Greek word anagnōrí(zein) which meant "to know again." This concept is discussed in Aristotle's Poetics.]

In terms of anagnorisis, the mythic, tragic realisation that prophecies were correct is only really the case for fictional characters, yet it is a continually attractive idea for those of us who know that our lives don't have a plot. - Alice Bennett, Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction , 2012

Tragedy and comedy both deal in errors of perception and their unveiling, a device known since the Greeks as anagnorisis . - David Bellos, Jacques Tati , 1999

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Anagnorisis Greek An Ag Nawr Uh Sis Nohr \ Noun Ancient Tragedy Critical