Tragic Hero
Name the tragic hero trait exemplified in this quotation – Creon: Let death come quickly. I would not ever see the sun again.
Nemesis
A reference to “the curse of Oedipus” in the play Antigone is an example of what literary device?
Allusion
“Lead me away. I have been rash and foolish.”
Creon
Antigone demonstrates excessive pride when she declares what?
That king Creon will not stand in the way of her plans to bury her brother Polyneices.
What two brothers’ deaths begin the conflict of the play?
Polyneices and Eteocles have killed each other in a civil war
Name the tragic hero trait exemplified in this quotation – Creon: I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid…to follow the course that he knows best for the state.
Arete
Antigone & Ismene are both sisters born under the same curse, yet one will risk her life to bury her brother, the other won’t. This juxtaposition is known as a:
Character Foil
“The time is not far off when you shall pay back corpse for corpse, flesh of your own flesh…”
Teiresias
The dust storm that accompanies Antigone’s 2nd attempt to bury Polynieces might indicate what?
The gods approve of her actions and are trying to protect her.
In the play, the “voice of the people” is represented by what?
The Chorus
Name the tragic hero trait exemplified in this quotation – Creon: She and her sister earn bitter death for this!”
Ate
When Polyneices is described as “the wild eagle” this is an example of what literary device?
Metaphor
“Anarchy, Anarchy! Show me a greater evil. This is why cities tumble and the great houses rain down. This is what scatters armies!”
Creon
DAILY DOUBLE
You must get all 3 to get credit.
Describe three specific events / actions that indicate Creon’s lack of fitness to rule (indirect characterization).
His threat to torture and kill the sentry
His refusal to bury the dead (Polyneices)
His baseless accusations of bribery and treason
In the prologue, there is a conversation between Antigone and Ismene, where Ismene refuses to do what?
To help bury her brother Polyneice’s body as Antigone intends to do.
Name the tragic hero trait exemplified in this quotation – Creon: The State is the king!
Hamartia/Hubris
When the play describes “famished spears” this is an example of what literary device?
Metaphor / Personification
“We are only women, we cannot fight with men!”
Ismene
Who is Antigone’s fiancé?
Haemon
An unexpected consequence of Antigone’s actions is that she endangers whom?
Ismene, who attempts to side with Antigone at the end of Scene 2 and take blame for a crime she didn’t commit, risking death.
Name the tragic hero trait exemplified in this quotation – Creon: I will carry her far away out there in the wilderness and lock her living in a vault of stone.”
Ate
When Creon delivers a long speech to the chorus, this is known as what literary device?
A monologue
“It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands: We die forever…apparently the laws of the gods mean nothing to you.”
Antigone
The argument between Antigone and Creon is best described as a conflict between what two types of laws?
The law of man and the law of the gods.
Why does Antigone need to bury her brother, Polyneices?
The spirits of unburied bodies wander in limbo, lost for eternity as ghosts.