Who Said?
"Remember we are women; we're not born to contend with men."
Who is Ismene?
"My countrymen, the ship of state is safe."
What is a metaphor?
"Stop--before you make me choke with anger--the gods!" One can say that anger is Creon's tragic flaw or this Greek term.
What is hamartia?
Creon does this to Polynice.
What is leaving him unburied?
"Then reflect my son: you are poised, once more on the razor-edge of fate."
What is the climax?
"From now on they'll act like women."
Who is Creon?
"... Guard grilling guards--we'd have come to blows at last..." All those G words!
What is alliteration?
"Am I to rule this land for others--or myself?"
Oh boy! This clearly shows Creon's arrogance or this Greek term.
What is "hubris"?
According to the sentry, Antigone did this to Polynices's body.
What is giving it "proper rites"?
"All right, here it comes. The body--someone's just buried it, then run off..."
What is the inciting incident?
"Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you. All men make mistakes, it is only human."
Who is Tiresias?
"Man the skilled! the brilliant! He conquers all..."
What it hyperbole?
"Enough. Give me glory! What greater glory I win than to give my own brother decent burial?" This shows Antigone's justifiable pride or this Greek term.
What is arete?
Haemon says: "Then she will die ... but her death will kill another." So, Haemon did this.
What is committing suicide?
Then she will die ... but her death will kill another."
What is falling action?
"Love!--you wrench the minds of the righteous into outrage, swerve them to their ruin..."
Who is the chorus?
"Sooner or later foul is fair, fair is foul to the man the gods will ruin."
What is a paradox?
"I'll set her free myself. I am afraid ... it's best to keep the established laws to the very day we die." Creon's realization highlights this Greek term.
What is anagnorisis?
Tiresias says: "Suddenly I heard it, a strange voice in the wingbeats." Knowing that's a bad omen, Tiresias does this to placate the gods.
What is a burnt-sacrifice?
"What? You'd kill your own son's bride?
What is a complication (rising action)?
"Tell me the news, again, whatever it is ... sorrow and I are hardly strangers."
Who is Eurydice?
"Spit it out! Just don't speak it out for profit."
What is an idiom?
"Oh I've learned through blood and tears! Then, it was then, when the god came down and struck me..."
I feel for you, Creon. I feel for you! And if this can happen to you--a king, I better take it easy.
What is catharsis?
According to the messenger, Haemon did this to his father.
What is "spat in his face" and tried to stab him?
"And the guilt is all mine--can never be fixed on another man, no escape for me."
What is falling action?