Greek Drama
Family Matters
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Death & Destiny
How Tragic!
100

The purpose of the ____ section in the play is to act as a curtain and to recap the events in the play, before every scene.

What is the Ode?

100
This is how Antigone feels about covering Polyneices' body
What is does not feel guilty because she went against Creon's law.
100

This person said "I will bury him myself. And even if I die in the act, that death will be a glory. I will lie with the one I love and loved by him—an outrage sacred to the gods! "

Who is Antigone.

100
This is how Oedipus brought a curse upon his family.
What is the fact that he married mom and killed dad.
100
This person is the tragic hero by the end of the play.
Who is Creon.
200

Who is the author of Antigone? And where is the setting? 

Sophocles and Greece

200
This is the advice Haimon gives to his father concerning his decision to kill Antigone.
What is Haimon tells his father that he should not kill Antigone because she has done nothing wrong.
200
This person said “They (her brothers) mean a great deal to me; but I have no strength to break laws that were made for the public good".
Who is Ismene.
200
These are the two reasons why Creon does not allow Polynieces to be buried.
What is his escape from exile and warring against his brother, Eteocles, who stood for their family's kingdom.
200

What is Pride drives people to make poor and hurtful decisions an example of?

What is the theme of Antigone?

300

What do ethos, pathos, and logos mean?

Ethos: appeal to credibility, values, or moral

Pathos: appeal to emotion

Logos: appeal to logic, reason, or intelligence

300
This is what Ismene does when she is brought before Creon.
What is try to take some of the blame for the burial of Polynieces.
300
This person said "Who is the man here, she or I, if this crime goes unpunished?"
Who is Creon.
300
This is the blind prophet who predicts that "if Creon kills Antigone, he will suffer the loss of his family".
Who is Teiresias.
300

What is a fatal flaw that Creon and Antigone have in common?

What is Pride?

400

What is the meaning of hubris?

Excessive Pride

400

Creon changes his mind to this from the original decree of death to Antigone?

What is from death, to locking Antigone into a vault.

400
Who said "Not many days, and your house will be full of men and women weeping."
Who is the Teiresias.
400

What do Tiresias' final words to Creon drive him to do?

What is free Antigone, before trading corpse for corpse and flesh for flesh?

400
This is one of the characters strengths and weaknesses: strengths: loyal, brave, god-fearing weaknesses: head-strong, fiery, prideful
Who is Antigone.
500

What is the dramatic irony, something the audience knows-- but most or all of the characters do not, at the beginning of the play?

Antigone plans to bury the body of Polyneices

500
Ismene and Antigone are opposites: Antigone follows the gods and Ismene follows the law. This mean that they are ________.
What is foils
500
Who said "She covered her brother's body. Is this indecent? She kept him from dogs and vultures. Is this a crime?"
Who is Haimon.
500

These are the three people that died towards the end of the play, and how they died.

Who is Haemon, Antigone, and Eurydice. All died by suicide.

500

What is the peripeteia, or a sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstances, of Antigone?

The death of Haimon and Eurydice, because of Creon only aiming to kill Antigone-- and as a result losing his son and wife.

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