epitasis

The definition of an epitasis is the middle of a classical drama, where action is created that leads to the problem.

(noun)

An example of an epitasis is a battle scene in a drama.

See epitasis in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

that part of a play, esp. in classical drama, between the protasis, or exposition, and the catastrophe or denouement

Origin: ModL < Gr, a stretching, intensity < epiteinein, to stretch, intensify < epi-, epi- + teinein, to stretch: see thin

See epitasis in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. e·pit·a·ses (-sēzˌ)

The middle part of a play that develops the action leading to the catastrophe.

Origin:

Origin: Greek, stretching, intensity

Origin: , from epiteinein, epita-, to stretch, intensify

Origin: : epi-, epi-

Origin: + teinein, to stretch; see ten- in Indo-European roots

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