Characters
The wife and mother of Oedipus.
Who is Jocasta?
This literary devices uses a comparison between 2 unlike objects using 'like' or 'as'.
What is a simile.
The reason the citizens were asking for help at the beginning of the play.
What is the plague?
Where does the action of the story take place?
Where is Thebes?
Head of a woman, body of a lion, wings of an eagle. Gave the riddle that Oedipus solved.
Who is the sphinx?
Creon learns that the king's killer is in Thebes when he travels to this place.
What is the oracle at Delphi.
A GREAT exaggeration or overstatement.
What is hyperbole.
Why Oedipus left Corinth.
What is he was afraid he would kill his father and marry his mother (the prophecy).
Who wrote Oedipus Rex?
Who is Sophocles?
This blind prophet knows the truth about Oedipus.
Who is Teiresias?
This literary device uses of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature.
What is foreshadowing.
The god Oedipus and his people pray to ...
Who is Apollo.
Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
Oedipus' name means ...
What swollen foot? Sophocles invites the audience to hear the pun oida which means I know.
A messenger from Corinth comes to tell Oedipus that this has happened.
What is his father has died?
Name the adoptive parents of Oedipus.
Who are Polybus and Merope?
This is the name of the previous king and Oedipus' biological father.
Who is Laius?
This definition of dramatic irony is ...
When the audience knows or understands something that a character does not know.
Where was Oedipus supposed to be left to die as a baby?
Where is Mount Cithaeron?
Oedipus killed his father at a place where how many roads meet?
How many is three?