Antigone Family Tree
This character is Antigone's sister.
Who is Ismene?
The city where all of the action in Antigone takes place
What is Thebes?
Antigone has been described as brash, bold, reckless, and confident. When we use these words, what literary device are we referring to?
Characterization
What is the conflict between Ismene and Antigone about?
What is whether to bury their brother, Polyneices, or not?
The principle of being fair, equal, and honest in how people are treated. Also, part of the name of our school.
What is Justice?
This character is Antigone's father...and brother?
Who is Oedipus?
The "character" that represents the voice of the people
Who is The Greek Chorus?
The person who "destroyed both his eyes" on lines 24-29, pg. 3.
DOUBLE CREDIT if you can name the literary element
Who is Oedipus?
(What is allusion?)
The punishment for burying Polyneices, according to Creon's edict.
What is Public stoning?
Synonyms include "law" and "statute"
What is "edict"?
This character is both Antigone's mother and grandmother
Who is Jocasta?
The place where Greek theater was performed, featuring a stage surrounded by a semi-circle of seats
What is an amphitheater.
The disagreement between Antigone and Ismene can be described by what literary device
What is Person vs. person conflict?
What Jocasta does after finding out she is married to her son.
What is hanging herself?
Complete the sentence: "My brother became ____________ when I asked him to do his chores."
What is "insolent"?
Antigone's grandfather, and a former king of Thebes
Who is Laius?
The king of the Olympians and the god of the sky, weather, thunderstorms, lightning bolts, winds and clouds. Also the god of the law, order, justice, power, human fate and the human race.
Who is Zeus?
The literary device in the following quotation: "Like an eagle over the land he flew, covered with white-snow wing" (Sophocles pg. 5, ll. 30-31).
What is simile?
The weather event that causes the Guard to not notice Antigone burying her brother.
What is a dust storm/sandstorm?
The Spanish word for "endure"
What is "perdurar"?
The correct spelling of the name of the brother who betrayed Creon and Thebes.
What is P-O-L-Y-N-E-I-C-E-S?
The goddess representing victory. Also, the name of a famous sportswear brand.
Who is Nike?
The literary device in this line: "Then did you shine, O golden day's eye" (Sophocles 5, l. 23).
What is Personification?
How Laius died.
What is in a scuffle on the road with a "stranger" who turned out to be Oedipus?
The spelling of a word that means the inner voice or feeling that helps you tell the difference between right and wrong