Answer:
Hamartia is a tragic flaw that causes the downfall of a hero.
Hubris is excessive pride and disrespect for the natural order of things.
Peripeteia is the reversal of fate that the hero experiences.
Anagnorisis is a moment in time when hero makes an important discovery in the story.
Nemesis is a punishment that the protagonist cannot avoid, usually occurring as a result of his hubris.
Catharsis are feelings of pity and fear felt by the audience, for the inevitable downfall of the protagonist.
Explanation:
Hamartia is basically a trait the hero possess (ex. arrogance) that leads to their downfall.
Hubris means their pride gets in the way and they dirupt the order of things.
Peripeteia is when they started with one luck and it flipped (ex. good luck to bad luck, or bad luck to good luck)
Anagnorisis is when the hero finds out something big (Ex. the ememy is his long lost father)
Nemesis normally happens becase the order was dirupted and the hero has to pay the price (ex. hero cuts down a fruit tree. The fruit turns out to be the only thing that could cure the hero after being poisoned. But the tree was cut so the hero will die without the annodote)
Catharsis is basically when the audience comes to the conclusion the hero is doomed (ex. The reader relalizes the hero cut down the only tree that could save them.
"I understood, too, that in ordinary civil administration this oath even forbade me to practically indulge my primary abstract judgment on the moral question of slavery."
<span>Means that the oath he took when he(Abraham Lincoln) went into office and became president forbids him to do something that breaks the constitution no matter if his OWN morals say something else.
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"I had publicly declared this many times and in many ways; and I aver that, to this day I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery."
<span>He publicly said this to show every one his views on slavery different ways and he states that to that day he's done no official act to defend his judgement and view on slavery.
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"I did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government, that nation, of which that Constitution was the organic law."
<span>He understood that his oath to preserve the constitutions to the best of his ability by any means necessary because the constitution was the main law.
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"Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the Constitution?"
<span>He looks for an alternate way to find a way to preserve the constitution without losing the nation.</span>
