| A | B |
|---|
| Arete | nobility by character, usually by birth |
| Hubris | pride that becomes excessive |
| Aristotle's Man of the Golden Mean | man should have the perfect balance of pride and humility or any other traits. Any excess of one or the other causes his downfall |
| Hamartia | tragic error, a mistake or a misjudgment which is a result of his traigic flaw often, He does something wrong |
| Ate | a mental blinding, delusion which keeps man from foreseeing the consequences of his sins. Sometimes called a binding by the gods or be Fate |
| Peripiteia | a reversal of fortune, usually the climax |
| Anagnorisis | a recognition of reality previously conceived a tearing off the mask. This results in the recognition not only of truth but also of guilt, of the fact that the tragic protagonist is himself fully responsible for all he has done. A protagonist has struggled valiantly with force more powerful than himself and has been vanquished. A sense of noble waste dominates |
| Catastophe | complete ruin or death of the tragic hero. |
