Oedipus Terms Crossword
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
 
 
Down: 1) persons of the play2) set of three4) a creature part woman, lion, and bird; a creature shaped like a winged lion, but with the breast and face of a woman6) verbal sparing/fencing – usually heightens the suspense and tension preceding the final revelation of truth. The pacing of the dialogue quickens7) swollen foot8) what happens is different from what’s expected to happen9) props13) when a character says one thing but means another14) two statements that are contradictory but nevertheless true. “It is the little things in life that make the biggest difference16) high platform shoes18) scenes – scene in the action of the drama20) the final portion of a Greek tragedy Across: 3) pride, arrogance5) awesome excellence6) odes – a choral passage, alternating with the episodes of the plot of the drama8) the building erected on a Greek theatre behind the area where the actors perform10) questions designed for effect not to be answered11) a basic model from which copies are made; therefore a prototype12) long, flowing robe, dyed in symbolic colors15) the tragic hero’s tragic flaw or sometimes interpreted as tragic error17) purging of the emotions the audience experiences at the conclusion of a tragedy19) the point of reversal in a tragedy when an action produces the opposite of what was originally intended21) the entrance song of the chorus or tragedy22) the audience or reader is aware of critical information of which the characters are unaware23) moment of discovery, disclosure, recognition
 

 

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