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WORD FOR THE DAY(4/2/18) Agon
Merriam Webster
| 4/2/18
Posted on 04/01/2018 6:35:14 PM PDT by left that other site
WORD FOR THE DAY(4/2/18)
agon
noun AH-gahn
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Definition
: conflict; especially : the dramatic conflict between the chief characters in a literary work
Did You Know?
Agon comes from the Greek word agōn, which is translated with a number of meanings, among them "contest," "competition at games," and "gathering." In ancient Greece, agons (the word is also pluralized in English as agones) were contests held during public festivals. The contests—among them the ancient Olympics, on which our modern Olympics is modeled—involved everything from athletics to chariot and horse racing to music and literature. Agon in the realm of literature refers to the dramatic conflict between the main characters in a Greek play or, more broadly, between the chief characters in any literary work. The word is also occasionally used to refer to conflict in general.
Examples
"The agon of the central character, self-besieged or plagued by circumstance, runs through the history of the director's films, as does the suspicion that man's brutality to man may have a penitential purpose." — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2016
"There is always a fierce struggle—an agon—in the soul of the poet between her own poetic universe and that which precedes her, and against which she is to make her voice heard." — Costica Bradatan, The Los Angeles Review of Books, 24 Sept. 2017
TOPICS: Word For The Day
KEYWORDS: agon; wftd; wordfortheday
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
MY ENTRY:
I surmised that, due to the agon of captivity, the protagonist of the story was a goner.
To: left that other site
The guy from Ghostbusters?
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posted on
04/01/2018 6:36:37 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: secret garden; VRWCmember; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; TruthShallSetYouFree; theDentist; ...
We use derivitives of this word all the time, but hardly ever use the word itself.
Agony
Antagonist
Protagonist
agonizing
etc.
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posted on
04/01/2018 6:37:21 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/01/2018 6:44:53 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: left that other site; BenLurkin; Red Badger
I ain’t got no conflict ever with Argon - It’s one of them there neutral gasses. Kinda high-falutin’ though, it’s got that noble heritage ya know.
To: left that other site
That's it--make agon.
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posted on
04/02/2018 5:02:23 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(Vladimir is just Put in on a show for his followers.)
To: Robert A Cook PE
Nope...Argon is quite noble.
It’s the Krypton you gotta watch out for.
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posted on
04/02/2018 7:15:37 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
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posted on
04/02/2018 7:19:31 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
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posted on
04/02/2018 12:58:21 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Blessed Easter BUMP)
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