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