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