A play may have elements of each, but one or the other predominates. A comedy is a play in which the point of view is slanted to show the humor in life. The two major divisions are high comedy and low low comedy. In high comedy the humor and pleasure is derived from the brilliance of the dialogue and the elegant manners of the character. It is based on intellectual appreciation of clever phrases.
Low comedy is based upon situations which stress physcical discomfort.
OR incredible feats of the hero. In the narrow sense of the word tragedy means the defeat of the leading character. In many cases this means death, but not always. Tragedy is presented from a serious point of view, and demands that the audience employ their imagination and emotional feelings . The tragic hero most often contains within his own personality a flaw which is the cause of his doom.