Grammar
The Obscure
The Plot
Tricky Terms
Easy Poetry
100
The appropriate missing mark: I love living in colorado!
What is Capitalization?
100
Character who only pops up in the last play, bethrothed to Antigone. Dies in the end.
Who is Haemon?
100
A man who can predict the future, warns multiple kings about how their pride will be their downfall.
Who is Tiresias?
100
Denotation!
What is the literal definition of a word?
100
Identify term: Her face smelled of overripe cantaloupe.
What is imagery?
200
Identify missing mark: Fate seems to be cruel however, most of us seem find food and a place to sleep regularly enough to survive, at least. You could get a prophecy that you would marry your mother and kill your father, however that would not be good.
What is a semicolon?
200
A "foil" to Antigone. Has characteristics contrasting. with Antigone in order to make Antigone's bravery and stubbornness more obvious. Is not dead at the end of Antigone.
Who is Ismene?
200
A group of people whose purpose is to give the audience "a voice" in the play.
What is the chorus?
200
Connotation!
What is the figurative definition of a word?
200
The pattern is ABBA, which repeats every stanza.
What is a rhyme scheme?
300
The appropriate missing mark: Brandy loves Star Wars however, she has to wait until December to get her fix.
What is a semi-colon?
300
Mythological characters who haunted/tortured those who wronged their parents or elders. Incidentally, possessing a shrine that was the right spot for Oedipus to die.
Who are the Euminides? Who are the furies?
300
Three members of the line of Labdacus.
Who are Creon, Oedipus, Laius, Antigone, Ismene, Jocasta, Eteocles, or Polyneices.
300
Parallelism!
What are repeated grammatical structures?
300
I am so HAPPY to see you today! (Happy should sound sarcastic.)
What is tone?
400
Appropriate missing mark: This toilet is only for disabled elderly pregnant children. Rachel Ray finds inspiration in cooking her family and her dog. Don't wear black people.
What are commas?
400
Creon's wife, who kills herself while cursing him after learning how he was responsible for the death of his TWO sons, Megareus and Haemon.
Who is Eurydice?
400
The primary source of conflict in Oedipus the King. ___________ vs. ____________ (Logic vs. love, for example)
What is free-will vs. destiny? What is sight vs. insight?
400
Billowing breezes beget bumblebee barrages.
What is alliteration?
400
Identify term in use: She was like a blimp, pregnant with hot air, ready to Hindenburg all over the place.
What is a simile?
500
Identify the error: We have read "Oedipus the King," "Oedipus at Colonus," and we are watching "Antigone."
What is underline or italics for titles?
500
Creon's first son, not allowed to fight against the Seven Against Thebes. Died fighting against the Seven Against Thebes. Go figure.
Who is Megareus?
500
The primary source of conflict in Antigone. ___________ vs. ____________ (Logic vs. love, for example)
What is Law vs. Religion or Tradition? What is Family vs. Responsibility?
500
Creon reacts to Antigone's vocal disobedience by _________ that even horses can be easily broken, __________ that Antigone is no better than an animal. Refer to 100 and 200 pt. questions in this category.
What are denotation/connotation?
500
One is two rhymed lines, one is four rhymed lines (with their own particular pattern.)
What are couplets and quatrains?
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