Hero's Journey: Key Terms
Across
- 2. The process of gaining new knowledge or entering a new stage of life
- 4. recurring type of character that appears across myths, literture, and film
- 7. A universal story pattern in which a hero goes on an adventure, faces challenges, and returns transformed
- 8. Involves the introduction to a mentor, the new world, several challenges
- 10. A journey taken to achieve a specific goal or mission
- 11. The hero struggles with the enormity of the task in this stage
- 12. A dark reflection of a hero, an antagonist
- 13. Distracts the hero from the quest
- 15. A larger-than-life hero with extraordinary abilities
Down
- 1. A significant internal change in the hero
- 3. A stage where the hero is given a task or finds a problem that must be solved
- 5. An American who identified the hero's journey
- 6. Provides the hero with wisdom, would die for the hero
- 9. A significant event marking a transition from one stage of life to another
- 14. A guide to the hero, usually older and wiser