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"Here I am myself--you all know me, the world knows THIS. I am Oedipus."
What is "my fame"?
"I would be blind to misery not to pity my people kneeling at my feet." How ironic!
What is verbal irony?
"No matter--I must rule."
What is hubris (pride or arrogance)?
"The heralds no sooner reported Laius dead than you appeared and they hailed you king of Thebes."
Who is Jocasta?
The number of prophecies in the play?
What is 2?
The man of THIS--you see it every day--his plans will work in a crisis, his first of all.
What is "experience"?
"...stone-blind, stone-deaf--senses, eyes blind as stone!"
What is a simile?
"I have wept through the nights, you must know that, groping, laboring over many paths of thoughts."
What are "choices and consequences"?
or
"Problem solving"
"Now I've reached this pitch of dark foreboding."
Who is Oedipus?
King Laius's physical descriptions? He had "gray" streaks in his temples, and he was THIS.
What is swarthy?
"I stopped the Sphinx! With no help from the birds, the flight of my own THIS hit the mark."
What is "intelligence"?
"If I thought you would blurt out such asurdities..." Blurt?
What is an onomatopoeia?
"How wrong it is to take the good for the bad, purely at random, or take the bad for good."
What is "ignorance versus knowledge?"
or
"Appearance versus reality"?
"The more I tell, the worse the death I'll die."
Who is the sheperd?
Oedipus was raised there. Also, a book in the bible is derived from that same place.
What is Corinth?
"Look, if you think crude, mindless stubbornness such a gift, you've lost your sense of THIS."
What is "balance"?
"You've a wicked way with words, Creon. THIS literary device, ironically!
What is alliteration?
"How terrible--to see the truth when the truth is only pain to him who sees!"
What is the theme "power and responsibility"?
"Count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last."
Who is the Chorus?
Cadmus, Phocis, Gorgon, Zeus. Which one is NOT mentioned in the play?
What is "gorgon"?
"Why this rage? You're so THIS."
What is "unbending"?
"You prophecies of the gods, where are you now?"
What is an apostrophe?
"But he cannot out-race the dread voices of Delphi ringing out of the heart of the Earth..."
What is "fate versus free will"?
Look at you, sullen in yielding, brutal in your rage--you will go too far.
Who is Creon?
This is Oedipus's costliest mistake.
When he tells a random messenger (a stranger) about the prophecy.