ACROSS
2. Emotional release in drama or art
4. Moment of heightened action or emotion,
protagonist either obtains goal or not
5. To put to flight, force out of a hiding place, etc.
8. Prophet; visionary
11. Secret plan to commit a crime; a plot
12. Guess; speculation; hypothesis; assumption
13. Occurrence or object regarded as portending
(foreshadowing) good or evil
14. Resolution and end of play
15. A perceiver of things or events in the future or
beyond normal sensory contact
16. Definite; clear
19. Violation of faith or trust; betrayal
20. A sudden change of events or reversal of
circumstances
OEDIPUS THE KING
Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle
Aimee Pierce, BYU, 2003
DOWN
1. Character's tragic "misstep" or mistake,
sometimes called a tragic "flaw"
3. Rumor; gossip
6. A place at which advice or prophecy
was sought from the gods in classical
antiquity
7. Moment of decision for the protagonist
9. An event that gets the action rolling
10. A power regarded as
predetermining events unalterably; an
individual's appointed lot
17. Uproar; outbreak of fury
18. Introduces setting, character, major
idea