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mode

The mode of imitation is one of the fundamental elements of mimesis in poetry; the other two are the medium and object of imitation. Mode describes the manner in which the poetry is conveyed to its audience. The mode of the epic is narration, while the mode of the tragedy is drama. Among the components of tragedy, spectacle occupies the category of mode.

• Aeschylus
• Aristophanes
• Euripides
• Sophocles

• anagnorisis
• catharsis
• character
• comedy
• complex plot
• complication
• denouement
• deus ex machina
• diction
• Dionysus
• dithyrambic poetry
• drama
• epic
• fear
• genre
• hamartia
• hexameter
• iambic
• medium
• mimesis
• mode
• narrative
• nomic poetry
• object
• pathos
• peripeteia
• phallic songs
• pity
• plot
• poetry
• simple plot
• song
• spectacle
• telos
• thought
• tragedy
• trope
• unities