Ancient Greece
This Greek city-state developed the world’s first democracy.
What is Athens?
This type of character is not well developed. The priest in Oedipus Rex is one.
What is a flat character?
In a Greek tragedy, this acts as the narrator throughout the play
What is the chorus?
This an object that some people believe can attract good luck. The monkey’s paw is one.
What is a talisman?
Even rocks do this, according to the poem.
What is crack?
This Greek city-state was the setting for the play Oedipus Rex.
What is Thebes?
This type of character changes by the end of the play. Oedipus is one.
What is a dynamic character?
This type of dramatic speech is a very long speech made by one person without interruption from others onstage.
What is monologue?
"Well, I don't see the money," said his son, as he picked it up and placed it on the table, "and I bet I never shall" is an example of this.
What is foreshadowing?
"Whoever is going to shatter them / hasn't come yet."
The who in the poem is
What is the seal?
People often visited this city-state in order to find out what the future held for them.
What is Delphi?
This type of character stays the same and does not change by the end of the plot.
Creon is one.
What is a static character?
The metaphor that is used throughout
Oedipus Rex.
What is light or sight is being able to see the truth, or being blind is not being able to see the truth?
Foreshadowing often creates this. It is what gives the reader the desire to keep reading in order to find out
what happens next.
What is suspense?
“And so the moss flourishes, the seaweed whips around,
the sea pushes through and rolls back—
the rocks seem motionless. .”
The moss, the seaweed, and the sea are symbolic of something.
What is time passing?
This ancient Greek philosopher examined tragedies in order to develop a formula for what a good tragedy should have.
Who is Aristotle?
If the antagonist is a thing in Oedipus Rex, it would be this.
What is fate?
Oedipus vowing to find Laios’ killer and saying, “I say I take the son’s part, just as though I were his son,” is an example of this.
What is dramatic irony?
"It had a spell put on it by an old fakir," said the sergeant-major, "a very holy man. He wanted
to show that ruled people's lives, and that those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow. " This is one concept that connects the story to Oedipus Rex.
What is fate?
The seal is a metaphor for this.
What is the last straw that breaks things apart?
At the festivals of Dionysia, this playwright’s plays took first place more than any other’s. His play Oedipus Rex was considered a model tragedy.
Who is Sophocles?
Someone says this about Teiresias:
A lord clairvoyant to the lord Apollo,
As we all know, is the skilled Teiresias.
One might learn much about this from him,
Oedipus.
It is an example of this type of characterization.
What is direct?
This, according to Aristotle, is the reason for Oedipus’ downfall.
What is his tragic flaw of hubris or excessive pride?
At this point in the plot, the Whites are dealing with the possible results of the SECOND wish
What is the climax?
The cracks symbolize what?
What are troubles or flaws people suppress because of pride?