Characters
This character only wants what's best for her sister.
Who is Ismene?
A comparison between two things that does not use "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
What is stoned to death?
This is the Greek term for "fatal flaw."
What is hamartia?
This rhetorical term refers to ethics and character..
What is ethos?
The blind old prophet who warns Creon to stop his madness and free Antigone from her underground prison.
Who is Teiresias?
When the audience knows something that characters in a play do not (it's a type of irony).
What is dramatic irony?
What is a ship/ "ship of state"?
Greek term for excessive pride that leads to the ruin of a character
What is hubris?
This Greek term refers to an appeal to your emotions.
What is pathos?
Creon's son, engaged to be married to Antigone
Who is Haemon?
Bam! Pow! Zap! Ugh!
What is onomatopoeia?
Haemon tries to do this when his father, Creon, breaks into Antigone's tomb.
What is tries to kill his father/attacks his father
The Greek term for "reversal of fortune."
What is peripeteia?
This Greek term in rhetoric describes appeals to your sense of logic and the power of facts.
What is logos?
Creon's wife and mother of Haemon, she kills herself when she discovers Haemon's fate.
Who is Eurydice?
This kind of character is well-developed as opposed to "flat."
What is a "round" character?
Teiresias is the same blind seer who tells this character that he killed his own father before marrying his own mother.
Who is Oedipus?
The feeling that Greek playwright's want you to experience a big emotional release, especially from watching a play or movie, where you might feel less stressed or more peaceful afterwards?
What is catharsis?
This famous Greek philosopher invented the rhetorical triangle, which we still study today.
Who is Aristotle?
Creon tells this man to find who disturbed the body of Polynices or be executed.
Who is the sentry/messenger?
A character who is a sailor steering a ship in the middle of a big storm is an example of this kind of conflict.
What is man/character versus nature?
Who is Creon?
What is anagnorisis?
This man wrote Antigone.
Who is Sophocles?