- Anagnorisis or "recognition", "identification"
- Catharsis or, variously, "purgation", "purification", "clarification"
- Dianoia or "thought", "theme"
- Ethos or "character"
- Hamartia or "miscalculation" (understood in Romanticism as "tragic flaw")
- Hubris or Hybris, "pride"
- Lexis or "diction", "speech"
- Melos, or "melody"; also "music-dance" (melos meaning primarily "limb")
- Mimesis or "imitation", "representation," or "expression," given that, e.g., music is a form of mimesis, and often there is no music in the real world to be "imitated" or "represented."
- Mythos or "plot," defined in Chapter 6 explicitly as the "structure of actions."
- Nemesis or, "retribution"
- Opsis or "spectacle"
- Peripeteia or "reversal"
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