All in the Family
Ismene and Eteocles are ___________
Siblings (brother & sister)
Why did Creon believe that Polyneices was a traitor?
He raised an enemy army to attack his own city (Thebes).
Why doesn't Ismene want to help Antigone bury Polyneices?
Ismene is afraid of Creon's law/punishment
"I will carry her far away out there in the wilderness, and lock her living in a vault of stone."
Greek actors used these to get into character and amplify their voices.
Masks
A recurring pattern in literature that is found in a variety of works from different cultures throughout the ages. Can be a character, plot, symbol, motif, etc.
When the audience knows something that the characters do not.
Dramatic Irony
Eurydice is Haemon's ____________.
Mom
What was originally Creon's penalty for burying Polyneices?
public execution by stoning
Why doesn't Antigone let Ismene die with her?
Ismene doesn't deserve an honorable death because she didn't help bury Polyneices.
Ismene
Antigone is an example of what type of theater?
Tragedy
excessive pride or self-confidence is called _________
hubris
A fatal flaw that leads to the downfall of a character or tragic hero
Hamartia
Antigone plans to marry Haemon, who is also her ____________.
Why does Creon believe that locking Antigone in a cave will "absolve the state of her death?"
He isn't *actually* killing her.
Why did Polyneices & Eteocles kill each other?
Eteocles broke his promise to share the throne and Polyneices attacked Thebes.
"Oh tell it! Tell everyone! Think how they'll hate you when it all comes out if they learn that you knew about it all along."
Antigone
Greek drama grew out of rituals to honor ____________.
Dionysus.
an indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, or literary work.
Allusion
the emphasis with which a word is spoken/modulation of the voice to indicate importance
Stress/inflection
Creon was Polyneice's ____________.
Uncle
When Sentry notifies Creon that someone has buried Polyneices, what does Creon threaten Sentry with?
Torture/death
How/when does Antigone get caught?
Antigone tries to rebury Polyneices's body after the guards have removed the layer of dirt covering him
Haemon
The chorus in Greek drama represents _____________.
the citizens (in Antigone, the citizen of Thebes).
Denotation is the dictionary definition of a word, whereas connotation is the societal context or implications of a word.
An emotional release; the purging of emotion in response to art, theater, or literature
Catharsis
Oedipus was Antigone's father and _______________.
(half) brother
When Haemon tries to convince Creon to free Antigone, what does Creon threaten in order to teach Haemon a lesson?
Kill Antigone in front of Haemon
What are Creon's decrees about the bodies of Polyneices AND Eteocles?
Eteocles is to be buried and honored as a hero.
Polyneices's body is to be left on the field of battle to rot.
"The time is not far off when you shall pay back corpse for corpse, flesh of your own flesh. You have thrust a child of this world into living night. You have kept from the gods below a child that is theirs."
Teiresias
The messenger explains events such as the deaths of Antigone and Haemon because ____________.
In greek society, death and violence did not happen on stage, but were explained by messengers.
Name and explain Aristotle's three unities
Unity of Time - the action of a tragedy should take place over no more than 24 hours
Unity of Place - a tragedy should be set in a singular location.
Unity of Action - a tragedy should have one principle subject or conflict
Name and explain the three rhetorical appeals.
Logos - appeal to logic/data/statistics
Ethos - appeal to credibility or character
Pathos - appeal to emotion