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Core terms

• Mimesis or "imitation", "representation"
• Catharsis or, variously, "purgation", "purification", "clarification"
• Peripeteia or "reversal"
• Anagnorisis or "recognition", "identification"
• Hamartia or "miscalculation" (understood in Romanticism as "tragic flaw")
• Mythos or "plot"
• Ethos or "character"
• Dianoia or "thought", "theme"
• Lexis or "diction", "speech"
• Melos or "melody"
• Opsis or "spectacle"