Matching Pairs Senior Vocab 1-6-20Online version Here's the vocab words for the upcoming quiz. by Finley Root 1 Gods of Greek Mythology 2 Hubris 3 Tragedy 4 Dramatic Irony 5 Catharsis 6 Riddle of the Sphinx 7 Hamartia 8 Tragic Hero 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 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 individuals who differ from human beings primarily through their immortality and power to change form pride, or over self-confidence, which often leads to the protagonist disregarding divine warnings or violating an important moral law 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 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 What walks on four legs in the morning, on two at midday, and on three in the evening a serious play (or novel) representing the disastrous downfall of the protagonist