Definition & Meaning | English word ANAGNORISIS
ANAGNORISIS
Definitions of ANAGNORISIS
- The moment in the plot of a drama in which the hero makes a discovery that explains previously unexplained events or situations; a denouement.
Number of letters
11
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using ANAGNORISIS in a Sentence
- These plots he considered complex and superior to simple plots without anagnorisis or peripeteia, such as when Medea resolves to kill her children, knows they are her children, and does so.
- Another prominent example of anagnorisis in tragedy is in Aeschylus's "The Choephoroi" ("Libation Bearers") when Electra recognizes her brother, Orestes, after he has returned to Argos from his exile, at the grave of their father, Agamemnon, who had been murdered at the hands of Clytemnestra, their mother.
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