Matching Pairs Senior Vocab 1-6-20Online version Here's the vocab words for the upcoming quiz. by Finley Root 1 Tragedy 2 Hubris 3 Dramatic Irony 4 Hamartia 5 Gods of Greek Mythology 6 Catharsis 7 Tragic Hero 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 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 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 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 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
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