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Plot
Antigone
Literary techniques
Creon
The Chorus
100
Death by public stoning.
What is the punishment for disobeying Creon?
100
She is extremely passionate.
What is Antigone's attitude towards Polyneices' burial?
100
Paradox.
What is the technique used in the phrase 'my tomb, my bridal chamber, my grave and home that will guard me forever'?
100
Creon's hubris.
What is Creon's fatal flaw?
100
The myth of Danae, Lycurgus and Cleopatra.
In the fourth choral ode, the chorus use which three myths to illustrate the fate of Antigone?
200
Antigone is presented as sarcastic.
How is Antigone presented in the prologue, where she says Polyneices is 'a delicious hoard for the watching birds to feast on'?
200
Stichomythia.
What is the main technique used in lines 465-489 and lines 673-714?
200
Creon's misogyny.
What is emotion of Creon is shown in lines 633-635?
200
The Chorus try to sympathise with Antigone but do not really agree with her motives.
What is the attitude of the Chorus towards Antigone in her kommos?
300
The exodos.
Which part in the play is the peripeteia?
300
Antigone is presented as regretful/proud/vulnerable/overwrought.
How is Antigone presented in the kommos?
300
Proleptic irony.
What is the technique used in lines 615 and 1182, that Creon orders Haemon to 'spit her [Antigone] out like an enemy, but Haemon later spits at him?
300
Creon's inarticulate grief.
In Creon's kommos,what kind of emotion is shown by his interjections?
300
To emphasise the emotional isolation of Creon and to suggest that no one understands Creon's grief.
Why don't the Chorus sing but speak in prose in Creon's kommos?
400
Eurydice stabs herself.
How does Eurydice die?
400
Antigone compares herself with Niobe(classical allusion).
How is Antigone's pride presented in the kommos?
400
Rhetorical questions.
Which technique is used in lines 261-265 to suggest his hubris?
400
Creon announces and justifies his proclamation regarding Polyneices.
What strategy does Creon use to warn his people about the burial of Polyneices in his opening speech?
400
The Chorus remind Antigone and the audiences of her previous thoughts and this shows the change in Antigone.
What is the importance of the Chorus in Antigone's kommos?
500
Creon changes his mind: he wants to free Antigone and bury Polyneices.
What does Creon do after his conversation with Teiresias?
500
Ismene is a foil character to Antigone.
What is the dramatic relationship between Antigone and Ismene?
500
Dramatic irony.
What is the technique used when Creon accuses Ismene of plotting the burial of Polyneices?
500
This shows how cruel and dictatorial Creon is and how he dehumanises his citizens.
What does the animal imagery that Creon uses show?
500
The Chorus are diplomatic.
What is the Chorus' attitude towards the conversation of Haemon and Creon?