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countable and uncountable, plural catastases
In classical drama, the second and penultimate section, in which action is heightened for the catastrophe. quotations examples
It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe.
1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
The object of the meta-theatre is precisely that – to allow the participants to see through their first roles in it. But that is only the catastasis.
1965, John Fowles, The Magus
(rhetoric) The part of a speech that states the subject to be discussed. examples