Matching Pairs Senior Vocab 1-6-20Online version Here's the vocab words for the upcoming quiz. by Finley Root 1 Tragic Hero 2 Gods of Greek Mythology 3 Hubris 4 Dramatic Irony 5 Riddle of the Sphinx 6 Catharsis 7 Hamartia 8 Tragedy pride, or over self-confidence, which often leads to the protagonist disregarding divine warnings or violating an important moral law a situation in which the speaker's words have a deeper significance than he himself is unaware of, but a significance which the audience is aware a leader in the community, full of admirable qualities, that commits an error in judgement in which he/she loses his/her high standing and suffers a fated disaster What walks on four legs in the morning, on two at midday, and on three in the evening individuals who differ from human beings primarily through their immortality and power to change form an error in judgement; often referred to as the "tragic flaw" but really just means a misjudgment which leads to the tragic hero's downfall the sense of purgation and purification that the audience gets from watching a tragedy; relief that the audience is not in the protagonist's scenario a serious play (or novel) representing the disastrous downfall of the protagonist
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