Oedipus Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. a prediction of someone's life based on the idea of fate/destiny
  2. 7. the first trait of a tragic hero, meaning that they are born into privilege
  3. 9. when the audience knows something that the character's do not
  4. 10. the third characteristic of a tragic hero, meaning that they are fated lose their status
  5. 11. aka epiphany, the part where the tragic hero realizes or learns something right after losing their status.
Down
  1. 1. a giant winged monster with the body of a lion and the head of a woman (there is a statue of one in Egypt)
  2. 3. a priest/priestess chosen by the gods to see into the future
  3. 4. a word for excessive pride/being really self-centered
  4. 5. when the opposite of what is expected to happen, happens
  5. 6. When a speaker says the opposite of what they mean
  6. 8. a negative trait that leads to a tragic hero's loss of status