Week 6

pride, leading to overconfidence

the representation of serious and important actions that lead to a disastrous end for the protagonist.

a poem, written as a speech, made by a character at a decisive moment in the story

a special kind of suspenseful expectation, when the audience or reader understands the implication and meaning of a situation onstage and foresees the oncoming disaster (tragedy) or triumph (comedy), but the character does not.

a form of dramatic irony that ultimately arrives at some tragedy.

the tragic hero's error or transgression.

moral Achilles' heal; weakness

at the end of a tragedy, we feel better, not worse.

the realization of some fact not know before.

an action that turns out to have the opposite effect of the one the doer intended.