Question

. The purpose of tragedy is to produce , that is, to purge negative emotions from the audience. Greek tragedies are also marked by swift reversals of fortune known as . These reversals are the effects of a major incident that occurs within the play called , which has a profound impact on the main character. The conclusions of Greek tragedies are marked by the element of , which is the final act of the protagonist’s downfall and failure.

Answer 1

The effect of purging negative emotions from the audience is called catharsis.

Swift reversals of fortune are knows as peripeteia.

I think that the major incident that has a profound impact on the main character is called anagnoris

I think that the last gap is best filled with the word "catastrophe".