Teiresias is blind and Oedipus makes fun of his blindness
What is an example of a Motif
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Solved the _____ to to the people of Thebes
riddle of Sphinx
100
What does Creon report?
That Laius's killer must be found
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What disability does Teiresias have?
He is blind
100
What is the thing that is worrying the people?
The plague
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Oedipus was trying to find the killer, but in reality, he was the killer.
What is an example of dramatic irony
200
Oedipus killed ______
King Laius
200
Where did Oedipus send Creon at the beginning of the play?
To the Pythian Oracle
200
What does Teiresias not want to do?
Tell Oedipus the truth
200
Why did Oedipus leave Corinth?
He was afraid he would kill his father and marry his mother.
300
"Great Chains are tied to his feet, around his achilles tendon. His hair is sparse, long, and gray. However on his head he wears a golden garland of Laurel leaves and in his hands he carries a long golden staff"
What is an example of symbolism
300
Who married Oedipus
Jocasta
300
Who told Creon that Oedipus killed Laius?
The gods
300
What did Oedipus make Teiresias do?
Come and talk to Oedipus
300
Who told Oedipus the story of how the oracle had been wrong and should not be trusted.
Jocasta
400
A literary element used throughout the whole thing.
What is flashback
400
Describe Oedipus
mean, has a temper, good at solving riddles
400
Explain Oedipus' anger with Creon.
Oedipus is angry with Creon, because Oedipus thinks Creon is trying to steal his throne and overthrow him as king.
400
What is Teiresias's relationship to Apollo?
He is Apollo's Prophet
400
What did Oedipus say when he saw Jocasta dead?
"The horrors I have seen and done."
500
In Oedipus the King, Sophocles used _________ to portray Oedipus as the tragic hero
What is characterization
500
How did he kill himself?
Gouging out his eyes
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What is Creon asked to do by Oedipus, at the end of the play?
Get him out of Thebes
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What makes Teiresias symbolic of the whole conundrum of the play?