Rhesis

Quick meaning: Rhesis is a noun meaning (theater, Ancient Greece) A passage of text in a play.

Meaning

(theater, Ancient Greece) A passage of text in a play.

Example Sentences

The chorus or chorus-coryphaeus is followed by a rhesis of the actor, followed in its turn by a stichic dialogue A/actor which usually culminates in a stichomythia.

A scheme that includes tetrameter sets off the rhesis from dialogue even more starkly , but it considerably enhances the potential of actor-chorus dialogue to be an effective balance to the long speech.

Such speeches (like the rheses) have the distinction of length, often exceeding one hundred lines; they give the impression that for a time dramatic effect is suspended, and, as a substitute, the recognised features of Epic Poetry supply a new interest.

Word Forms

• rheses

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include epirrhema, parabasis, strophe, epizeuxis, apocrisis, epicrisis.

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