Look up: Stichomythia

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   Stichomythia
   in ancient Greek, conversation in alternate lines; a form of tragic dialogue in which characters converse by using usually one line each; in such dialogues characters may use two, three, or a half line each.
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   Stichomythia
   Dialogue in alternate lines of verse e.g. ancient Greek plays.
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   Stichomythia
   `Stichomythia` is a technique in drama or poetry, in which alternating lines, or half-lines, are given to alternating characters, voices, or entities. The term originated in the literature of Ancient Greece, and is often applied to the dramas of Sophocles, though others like Shakespeare are known to use it. Etymologically it derives from the Greek `stichos` (`rows`) + `mythos` (`speech`). Stichomythia is particularly well suited to sections of ...
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   stichomythia
   dialogue in alternate lines, a form sometimes used in Classical Greek drama in which two characters alternate speaking single epigrammatic lines of ...
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   stichomythia
   stichomythia 1. In ancient Greek drama, a form of dramatic dialogue in which characters speak single lines alternately. 2. An ancient Greek arrangement of dialogue in drama, poetry, and disputation in which single lines of verse or parts of lines are spoken by alternate speakers.
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   stichomythia
   dialogue in alternate verse-lines.
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