This compendium of literary terms applies especially to tragedy and, more specifically, to Shakespearean tragedy. The terms include anagnorisis (recognition), aside, crisis, catastrophe, dramatic irony, exciting force, exposition, glimpse of restored order, hamartria (error in judgment), hubris (tragic flaw), moment of final suspense, peripeteia (reversal of situation), soliloquy, tragedy and tragic force. The terms, where appropriate, provide their Greek and Aristotelian sources with specific