Characters
Plot 1
Literary Terms
Plot 2
Miscellaneous
100
The wife of Oedipus, mother of Oedipus, Antigone, and Ismene.
Who is Jocasta?
100
This is the answer to the riddle the Syphx asks?
What is a man?
100
This literary devices uses a comparison between 2 unlike objects – uses like or as
What is a simile
100
The reason the citizens were asking for help at the beginning of the play
What is the plague?
100
Who is the head god of Olympus
Who is Zeus?
200
Head of a woman, body of a lion. Gave the riddle that Oedipus solved.
Who is the sphinx?
200
Creon learns that the king's killer is in Thebes when he travels to this place
What is the oracle at Delphi
200
A GREAT exaggeration or overstatement.
What is hyperbole
200
Why Oedipus left Corinth.
What is he was afraid he would kill his father and marry his mother.
200
This group of people could not act on stage and perform Oedipus
Who are women?
300
This group expresses the general views of the public.
What is the chorus?
300
This blind prophet knows the truth about Oedipus
Who is Teiresias?
300
This literary device uses of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature
What is foreshadowing
300
Told Oedipus the story of how the oracle had been wrong and should not be trusted.
Who is Jocasta?
300
The god Oedipus and his people pray to
Who is Apollo
400

Jocasta and Laius

Who are Oedipus' real parents?

400
Oedipus accuses Teiresias and this person of trying to set him up.
Who is Creon?
400
Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
What is alliteration?
400
Oedipus is determined to do this to find the person who killed Laius.
What is kill or banish?
400
A messenger from Corinth comes to tell Oedipus that this has happened
What is his father has died?
500
Name one of the adoptive parents of Oedipus.
Who are Polybus and Merope?
500
This is the name of the previous king and Oedipus' father
Who is Laius?
500
This definition of dramatic irony is
When the audience knows/understands something that a character in the literature does not know.
500
What does Oedipus plan to do to Jocasta when he learns she is his mother?
What is kill her
500
Who wrote Oedipus?
Who is Sophocles?
M
e
n
u