About Sophocles
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He was the author of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone.
Who was Sophocles?
100
This ancient civilization made tragedy into an art.
Who were the Greeks?
100
This city was where tragedies were produced as part of a religious festival.
What is Athens?
100
Name of the two other plays in the series with Antigone.
What are Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonius?
100
This type of punctuation is used to separate similar independent clauses, or lists in which the items already have commas
What is a semicolon?
200
This is the number of Sophocles's plays that exist today out of a total of more than 100.
What is 7?
200
This is the part of a tragedy which ends with the hero's destruction or death.
What is downfall of the hero?
200
The part of a Greek play usually chanted (or sung) in unison.
What is the choral ode?
200
The parents of Oedipus.
Who are King Laius and Queen Jocasta?
200
The "who" or "what" a sentence is talking about
What is the subject?
300
The nickname for the period of time in which Sophocles wrote his plays.
What is the "Golden Age"?
300
According to Aristotle, these are the emotions brought up through a tragedy.
What are fear, wonder, and awe?
300
These were what the actors in a Greek tragedy wore.
What are masks with built-in megaphones and platform shoes?
300
The prophecy given to the king and queen of Thebes.
What is "Your son will kill his father and marry his mother"?
300
This is the basic unit of all writing
What is a sentence
400
This was Sophocles's age when he won his first drama competition.
What is 28?
400
The term for the single flaw or "act of injustice" which brings about the downfall of the tragic hero.
What is hamartia?
400
A group of actors that moved and sang together, acting as one character.
What was the chorus?
400
This person was both the mother and wife of Oedipus.
Who is Queen Jocasta?
400
The verb tells a reader these two things about the subject.
What are what the subject does (action) or is (state of being)
500
The number of actors Sophocles had in the cast of his plays.
What is 3?
500
Horrible truth that leads to release.
What is catharsis?
500
The Greek word for actor.
What is hypokrites?
500
The decree, or order, of Creon that begins the action of the play.
What is "bury Eteocles but not Polyneices"?
500
Every verb must agree with its subject in these two areas.
What are PERSON and NUMBER?
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