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Cratylism: [1] a consideration of whether names are arbitrary or necessary; [2] a belief that there is a necessary, essential, mimetic connection between signifier and signified.
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Noesis: [1] Greek word meaning 'intuition' or 'thinking'; [2] the operation of nous without benefit of the discursive reasoning that characterizes diánoia; [3] awareness which represents the highest portion of human knowledge; [4] phenomenologically, an act of consciousness.
Hamartia: [1] a 'tragic flaw' in the character of the protagonist (the tragic hero); [2] a "tragic mistake," which implies that the character makes one fatal mistake based on an incomplete self knowledge.
Persistence of Vision: [1] said to account for the illusion of motion which results when a series of film images are displayed in quick succession, rather than the perception of the individual frames in the series; [2] an effect usually attributed to a 'defect' of the eye, (or in some accounts the 'eye-brain combination'), an archaic concept long left behind by psychologists and physiologists specialising in perception; [3] might be associated with a psychoanalytic view of mind, since the passive eye retains the effects of stimuli like a mystic writing pad, a palimpsest, that is like the unconscious; [4] implied model retained by psychoanalytic-Marxist film scholars, a passive viewer, a spectator who is "positioned," unwittingly "sutured" into the text, and victimized by excess ideology.
Synchoresis: [1] the rhetorical gesture of agreeing or seeming to agree with an opponent; [2] a tactic used in rhetorics to undercut an opponent.
Equivalence: [1] the crux of an argument splitting translators, particularly between the dynamic and formal schools; [2] the classical model of literary mimesis and a way of generating an equivalent of the real; [3] in metrics, a kind of substitution, in which a foot equal to the one expected but different from it is used.
Threnody: [1] a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person; [2] the forefather of such words as ode and tragedy.
Fundamental Image: a central image around which the story turns.