'Antigone'
'Antigone' Vocabulary
Short Story Literary Terms
MLA Format
Grammar
100

This character refuses to help Antigone bury the body of their brother. 

Ismene

100

This word means to make dirty, unclean, or impure.

Defile

100

This word refers to a piece of writing that begins in the middle of the action.

In Media Res

100

This type of citation occurs throughout your writing.

In-text citations or parenthetical citations

100
The bold-faced portion of the sentence is this type of clause:

My husband, who is a lacrosse coach, loves to watch the Toronto Maple Leafs. 

Non-essential relative clause

200

This character is the son of Creon, engaged to Antigone, and takes his own life at the end of the play. 

Haemon

200

This word means to willfully go against expectations.

Perverse

200

This term is a type of irony in which facts or events are unknown to a character within a story but are known to the reader, audience, or other characters. 

Dramatic Irony

200

This type of citation occurs at the end of your writing and includes only the sources cited in your paper.

Works Cited

200

The bold-faced portion of this sentence is this type of clause:

Before going home for winter break, students must take their semester exams. 

Dependent Clause

300

Polyneices attacked Thebes with an army when this character refused to give up the throne. 

Eteocles

300

This word means to regard someone as worthless and inferior. 

Contempt

300

This term refers to a writer's attitude, which is revealed through word choice. 

Tone

300

White Board: If you want to quote a line from page 7 of the article “Cyberbully,” what would be the

correct format for the internal citation? *There is no known author.



(“Cyberbully” 7)

300

These are the relative pronouns that introduce relative clauses. 

Who, whom, which, whose, that

400

This term means excessive pride and is responsible for Creon's tragic downfall. 

Hubris

400

This word best completes the following sentence:

Antigone's actions could make her an ______ in the eyes of the king. 

Anarchist

400

This term refers to a narrator who is able to know, see, and tell all including the inner thoughts and feelings of multiple characters. 

Omniscient Narrator

400

Based on the paraphrase below, this would be the information needed for the in-text citation.

John W. Lifeson, a noted Harvard historian, felt that, despite Kennedy’s personal weaknesses, JFK was exactly what the nation’s people wanted-a Camelot version of democracy (___). 

Page Number

400

The bold-faced portion in this sentence is this type of clause:

Michael Scott, fictional Dunder Mifflin Regional Manager, once burned his foot on a George Foreman grill.

Independent Clause

500

This literary device is illustrated in the line: "How often I have heard the story of Niobe...I feel the loneliness of her death in mind."

Allusion
500

This word best completes the following sentence:

Antigone refused to ____ the laws of heaven. 

Transgress

500

This term refers to a character used as a contrast to another more important character; the contrast emphasizes the differences between the two. 

Foil Character

500

White Board: Write the citation for the following quote. Known information: Article Title = “A History of the Middle Ages,” Publishing Company = BBC News, Page Number = 10, Date Published = 1998

Medieval Europe was a place both of “raids, pillages, slavery, and extortion” and of “traveling merchants, monetary exchange, towns if not cities, and active markets in grain” (_________). 

Medieval Europe was a place both of “raids, pillages, slavery, and extortion” and of “traveling merchants, monetary exchange, towns if not cities, and active markets in grain” (“A History of the Middle Ages” 10). 



500

The bold-faced portion of this sentence is this type of clause:

'The Office' is my favorite T.V. show even though Michael Scott acts unbearably awkward at times.

Dependent Clause

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