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What is an anagnorisis?

What is an anagnorisis? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The moment in the plot of a drama in which the hero makes a discovery that explains previously unexplained events or situations; a denouement.
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She is in the middle of explaining the concept of anagnorisis, the point in a tragedy at which the protagonist arrives at a momentous recognition.
Now then for anagnorisis, comic peripeteia, division into acts, and the rest of the wallet!
For example, one day while trying to overcome his traumatic separation from Helen Baird, he experiences anagnorisis in one of his classes.
It seems to be, in fact, a case of reinscriptive anagnorisis, in the proper classical sense of knowing throughout rather than simply knowing again.
I don't care if we're tricked into empathising, even sympathising with her, just so long as we get hamartia, hubris and anagnorisis as well.
Even more intensely than for Odysseus at his homecoming and anagnorisis, these paradigms of misbelieving fear and faith meet in the passion of Jesus.

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