Characters
Okonkwo's favorite child.
Who is Ezinma?
The first woman convert. She has given birth to four sets of twins.
Who is Nneka?
A personal god.
Okonkwo's village.
What is Umuofia?
A tragic flaw (often hubris) that leads to a tragic hero's downfall.
What is hamartia?
A character killed by Okonkwo early in the book.
Who is Ikemefuna?
The outcome for the convert accused of killing the sacred python.
What is death?
The large living quarters of the head of the family.
What is an obi?
Okonkwo's motherland that welcomes him when he is in exile.
What is Mbanta?
The point at which a tragic hero's story begins to take a turn for the worst.
What is peripeteia?
She shares a market stall with Ekwefi and also serves as the Oracle of the Hills and Caves.
Who is Chielo?
A convert and Okonkwo's son.
Who is Nwoye?
A term used for woman. The term is also used for a man who has taken no title.
What is agbala?
Obierika tells Okonkwo about this village destroyed by the British.
What is Abame?
The moment when a tragic hero recognizes their error or the true nature of their circumstances.
What is anagnorisis?
Okonkwo throws him in an epic wrestling match as a young man.
Who is Amalinze the Cat?
Convert who unmasks an egwugwu.
Who is Enoch?
A masquerader who impersonates one of the ancestral spirits of the village.
What is an egwugwu?
A man from this village killed a woman from Umuofia. It is also Ikemefuna's homeland.
What is Mbaino?
The purpose of a tragedy, which is to evoke pity and fear in the audience.
What is catharsis?
Okonkwo asks him for seed-yams as a young man.
Who is Nwakibie?
What the osu must do in order to join the church.
What is cut their hair?
A spirit who dies and is then reborn to the same mother repeatedly.
What is an obanje?
The number of villages.
What is nine?
The force(s) that bring(s) down the tragic hero. The term is also sometimes used to mean the tragic hero's downfall.
What is nemesis?