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.)
Noun. 1. floodplain-a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding. flood plain. champaign, plain, field-extensive tract of level open land; they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain; he longed for the fields of his youth.oun. 1. floodplain-a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding. flood plain. champaign, plain, field-extensive tract of level open land; they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain; he longed for the fields of his youth.