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Antigone /Greek Mythology References
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Literary Terms
Quote/Literary Term
100
To dispute his father's view of government, Haemon compare the state, as Creon sees it, to...
What is a desert?
100
Blind prophet; foretells the curse of the House of Oedipus and of Creon
Who is Teiresias?
100
"No marriage means more to me than your continuing wisdom."
Who is Haemon?
100
"Then she must die. But her death will cause another."
What is foreshadowing?
100
Quote: "No Teiresias. If your birds - if the great eagles of God himself - should carry stinking bit by bit to heaven, I would not yield...No man can defile the gods." Literary Term: "You too, Ismene, Snake in my ordered house..."
Quote: Who is Creon? Literary Term: What is a metaphor?
200
The metaphor Antigone uses to describe her tomb...
What is a bridal bed?
200
Argues that the citizens do not want Antigone harmed
Who is Haemon?
200
"Nobody like the man who brings bad news."
Who is the Sentry?
200
"Can anyone live, as I live, with evil all about me, think Death less than a friend?"
What is personification?
200
Quote: "It will not be the worst of deaths - death without honor." Literary Term: Sold your soul for some silver; that's all you've done.
Quote: Who is Antigone? Literary Term: What is Alliteration?
300
How Haemon attempts to persuade his father to change his position on the death of Antigone...
What is Haemon reports that the citizens feel that Creon's punishment of Antigone is unjust?
300
Tries to act as a mediator between father and son
Who is Choragus?
300
"I know it. You are king because of me."
Who is Teiresias?
300
"Damnation rises behind each child like a wave cresting out of the black Northeast..."
What is a simile?
300
Quote: "Only a crazy man is in love with death." Literary Term: "Yes, if the State is a desert."
Quote: Who is Choragus? Literary Term: What is a metaphor?
400
Antigone sees her untimely death as a consequence of...
What are her father's unholy actions?
400
Goddess of love and beauty
Who is Aphrodite?
400
"Oh it is hard to give in! But it is worse to risk everything for stubborn pride."
Who is Creon?
400
"So lately this last flower of Oedipus' line drank the sunlight! But now a passionate word and a handful of dust have convered up all its beauty."
What is a metaphor?
400
Quote: "How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!" Literary Term: "Polyneices their commander roused them with the windy phrases, he the wild eage screaming insults above their shields of snow, his crest their marshaled helms."
Quote: Who is the Sentry? Literary Term: What is a metaphor?
500
Creon's motive for finally wishing to free Antigone and bury Polyneices...
What is Creon doesn't want to be punished by the gods by losing his family and kingdom?
500
Zeus turned her into stone
Who is Niobe?
500
"God moves swiftly to cancel the folly of stubborn men."
Who is Choragus?
500
"All Danae's beauty was locked away in a brazen cell where the sunlight could not come..."
What is an allusion?
500
Quote: "O King, a man should never be too sure of anything." Literary Term: "These are my arrows Creon; they are all for you."
Quote: Who is the Sentry? Literary Term: What is a metaphor?