Greek Theater
In nearly all Greek tragedies, man’s biggest fault is excessive _________, which is a mistaken belief that he could somehow avoid fate or the will of the gods. The Greek term for this is HUBRIS.
What is PRIDE?
The woman punished for going against Creon's public statement and burying her brother.
Who was ANTIGONE?
What is the CHORUS?
Name the literary device:
"To break: like hard untempered steel"
What is SIMILE?
What is a TRAGEDY?
Greek theater was invented during festivals honoring this god.
What is the DIONYSUS?
The two types of laws that cause Antigone and Creon's conflict.
What are the LAW OF THE GODS and the LAW OF HUMANS?
Character who thinks that above all, a good ruler must be strong and controlling.
Who is CREON?
Name the literary device:
"our ship of state, which recent storms have threatened to destroy, has come safely to harbor at last"
What is METAPHOR?
the character who opposes the main character in a narrative
What is ANTAGONIST?
The part of a Greek tragedy where the action is concluded and the conflict is resolved. This is the final scene in the play in which the main character learns an important lesson.
What is the EXODOS?
Character whose unburied body infuriates the gods, leading them to refuse Teiresias's offering and to be deaf to human prayers.
Who is POLYNEICES?
The first character who tries to convince Creon to listen to reason and be willing to change his mind.
Who is HAEMON?
Antigone tells her sister that her "crime" (negative connotation) in burying her brother will actually be "holy" (positive connotation). Name the literary device.
“But I say that this crime is holy”
What is PARADOX?
Literary device used when the audience or reader knows something the characters don't know (like when Creon tells the Sentry "Bring me the man!" but we know it was really a woman who buried Polyneices!)
What is DRAMATIC IRONY?
Masked group in Greek plays who would sing and chant, sum up the action after every scene, and say out loud what the community would be thinking
What is the CHORUS?
The number of people who die at the end of Antigone.
What is THREE?
Who finally changes Creon's mind about Polyneices's body and Antigone's punishment.
Who is the CHORUS?
Name the literary device that is NOT alliteration:
"Your marriage strikes from the grave to murder mine."
What is PERSONIFICATION?
When Antigone remembers the story of Niobe, the woman trapped in stone, she is making a reference to another story from Greek mythology that Sophocles’s audience would have known. Name this literary device.
What is ALLUSION?
the release of emotions Aristotle said an audience would feel after watching a tragic play
Who was CATHARSIS?
Whose final message of the play is "Big words are always punished/And proud men in old age learn to be wise.”?
Who is the CHORUS?
Mother of Haemon and wife of Creon.
Who is EURYDICE?
Name the literary device used:
“Is it grief for Antigone that brings him here/And bitterness at being robbed of his bride?”
What is ALLITERATION?
Name this literary device.
"In flood time, you can see how some trees bend,
And because they bend, even their twigs are safe,
While stubborn trees are torn up, roots and all."
What is ANALOGY?