1 Hamartia: Many people who discuss tragedy often mention the hero's 'fatal' or 'tragic flaw.' However, Aristotle would never accuse a hero of such a personal defect. 2  Instead, he asserted that they were guilty of hamartia, or missing the mark.
Floodplains are landscapes shaped by running water. As streams and their larger forms, rivers, flow across the surface of land, they transport eroded rock and other material. (Erosion is the gradual wearing away of Earth surfaces through the action of wind and water.)
It is usually a flat area with steeper sides on the perimeter. A floodplain can be small, large, and sometimes massive. That doesn't mean that every time there's a flood, water fills the floodplain. But eventually, there will be a flood that extends to the edges of the floodplain. A floodplain flooding