About the Author
It's a Tragedy
Greek Theater
Antigone and her Family
Persuade Me
100
He was the author of "Oedipus Rex", "Oedipus at Colonus", and "Antigone".
Who was Sophocles?
100
This 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
One of the other two plays in the series of Antigone.
What are Oedipus Rex or Oedipus and Colonus?
100
Also know as the controlling idea, this is the most important part of your essay.
What is the thesis?
200
This is the number of Sophocles' plays that exist today out a total of more than 100.
What is 7?
200
This character's part ends in downfall usually with destruction or death.
What is the tragic hero?
200
This part of the play, usually sung, is what separated the scenes of a drama.
What is the choral ode.
200
The King and Queen of Thebes, also know as this to Oedipus.
What are parents?
200
You should know who your this is, in order to decide on what diction you should use.
What is audience?
300
This is the nick name of the time period in which Sophocles wrote his plays.
What is the Golden Age?
300
These, pity, fear, wonder, awe are aroused by tragedies.
What are emotions.
300
Platform shoes and masks with built in megaphones
What did actors wear?
300
"Your son will kill his father and marry his own mother", was a prophecy given to them.
Who are the king and queen of Thebes?
300
Going back and checking your grammar, diction, and syntax is also known as.
What is revising and editing?
400
This was Sophocles' age when he won his first drama competition.
What is 28?
400
A single flaw in character will usually cause this for the hero.
What is disaster or downfall.
400
This is the amount of time in which a play took place.
What is one day.
400
Both mother and wife of Oedipus.
Who is Jocasta?
400
These will help when appealing to logic, emotions, and ethics.
What are rhetorical appeals? Ethos, pathos, and logos.
500
This was the number of actors Sophocles would cast in his plays.
What is 3?
500
This is a horrible truth that leads to release.
What is catharsis?
500
They set the mood, summarized the action, or warned of disaster.
What is the chorus?
500
The decree of Creon that begins the action in Antigone.
What is to bury Eteocles but not Polyneices?
500
Thinking about what the other side will say, and addressing their concerns is helpful to your argument, it is known as this.
What are concessions and refutations?
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