This is the main character, or protagonist of the story, who experiences a downfall.
What is the Tragic Hero?
100
Antigone says that she follows the rules of this person or group.
Who are the Gods?
100
The repetition of consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
100
If you refer to businessmen as "suits" or the king and queen as the "crown", you are using this poetic device.
What is metonymy?
100
Every complete sentence needs a ____________ and a ______________; without these it's a fragment, and too many of these can be a run-on.
What is a Subject and a Verb?
200
This is a masked group of actors who observe and comment on the action of the play in song. They serve as the conscience of some characters and represent the citizens of the state.
What is the Chorus?
200
Who said this?
"Think how much more terrible than these our own death would be if we should go against Creon and do what he has forbidden! We are only women; we cannot fight with men."
Who is Ismene?
200
A type of poem that expresses deep emotion.
What is a lyric poem?
200
“When well-appareled April on the heel
Of limping winter treads.”
These lines contain examples on this poetic device.
What is personification?
200
The dog chased the cat the cat ran up the tree.
This is an example of?
What is a run-on?
300
This is an error in judgment or a weakness in character, such as pride and arrogance.
What is Harmatia (tragic flaw)?
300
According to the choragus, Antigone and her father's shared tragic flaw is that they act this way.
What is too stubborn?
300
A 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme and ending in a rhyming couplet.
What is Shakespearean Sonnet?
300
“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.”
These lines contain several examples of this poetic device.
What is alliteration?
300
Fix the following sentence that contains passive voice:
The house had been broken into by someone while the owners were on vacation.
What is Someone broke into the house while the owners were on vacation?
400
This is a disastrous conclusion that usually involves multiple deaths
What is the Catastrophe?
400
These are the three events that happen in the catastrophe of the play.
What is 1) Antigone hangs herself; (2) Haemon stabs himself; (3) Eurydice hangs herself
400
This poetic device refers to a thing by the name of one of its parts.
Example: Wheels = Car
What is synecdoche?
400
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
400
Insert the correct punctuation into the following sentence:
The equipment you will need is as follows; a jacket heavy boots a tent and a canteen.
What is The equipment you will need is as follows: a jacket, heavy boots, a tent, and a canteen. ?
500
This is a destiny preordained by the gods no matter what action a person takes in the present
What is Fate?
500
Who said this?
"The time is not far off when you shall pay back corpse for corpse, flesh of your own flesh."
Who is Teiresias?
500
This type of rhyme is present in the following line from "The Raven": "Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary"
What is internal rhyme?
500
“Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft,
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.”
These lines contain examples of this poetic device.
What is imagery?
500
Insert the correct punctuation into the sentence:
At first Jem destroys Mrs. Dubose’s flowers in response to her mean comments however he learns to act like a gentleman over the course of his time reading to her.
What is At first Jem destroys Mrs. Dubose’s flowers in response to her mean comments; however, he learns to act like a gentleman over the course of his time reading to her.