Literary Terms
What term describes a character’s moment of recognition or discovery?
Anagnorisis
What is the name of the group that represents the voice of the community in Greek tragedy?
Chorus
What is the place that symbolises isolation and resistance to Creon’s authority?
Antigone's tomb
Who says, “It is not reason never to yield to reason”?
Haemon
Who is the god of law and order, frequently invoked in Antigone?
Zeus
Which term refers to the audience’s purging of emotions at the end of a tragedy?
Catharsis
Who is the god for which theatre is performed and celebrated?
Dionysus
What natural element does the chorus use to symbolise divine power?
Fire
Who says, “We have only a little time to please the living, but all eternity to love the dead”?
Antigone
Who was punished by the gods for defying divine will, referenced by Antigone as a parallel to herself?
Niobe
What is the reversal of fortune called in a tragedy?
Peripeteia
What is the name for a rapid-fire exchange of single lines of dialogue between two characters?
Stichomythia
Represents ruthless fighting and chaotic behaviour, but also freedom
birds
Who says, “Think how much worse our end will be than all the rest if we defy our sovereign’s edict”?
Ismene
Which god of the underworld is referenced when Antigone discusses burial rites?
Hades
Creon’s decree to maintain order leads to chaos in his family and kingdom shows what type of irony?
situational irony
What year was Antigone first performed?
441 BC
Eurydice spends her days _____, evoking the Greek belief that life is spun, measured, and cut by the Fates.
knitting
Who says, “How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong”?
Sentry
What Greek figure imprisoned in a bronze chamber is referenced to highlight Antigone’s suffering?
Danaë
Creon's fatal flaw, or _____, is his _____
hamartia; hubris
The opening song sung by the chorus is the _____
The name of the final scene or conclusion is the _____
Parados; Exodos
What motif is repeated by the chorus to represent the state’s instability under poor leadership
storms and ships
Who says, “The time is not far off when you shall pay back corpse for corpse”?
Tiresias
This famous oracle is featured in eight, widely-studied Ancient Greek tales
Tiresias