About the Author
The author of Oedipus & Antigone.
Who is Sophocles?
Civilization that made tragedy into an art.
Who are the Greeks.
City where tragedies were produced as part of a religious festival.
What is Athens?
Another play within the series with Antigone.
What are Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus?
A literary device that references other works of literature.
What is an allusion?
The number of Sophocles' plays that exist today out of a total of more than 100.
What is 7?
A good person, usually of noble stature who has a downfall.
What is a tragic hero?
The part of a Greek play usually chanted (or sung) in unison.
What is the Choral Ode?
The King and Queen of Thebes.
Who are Oedipus' parents?
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is known for this type of fiction that combines fantasy and conventional storytelling.
What is Magical Realism?
The nickname of the time period in ancient Greece when Sophocles wrote his plays.
What is the Golden Age?
Pity and fear, wonder and awe.
What are the emotions aroused by tragedy?
In a Greek play, the Greek wore these with built-in microphones.
What are masks?
“Your son will kill his father and marry his own mother.”
What is the prophecy given to the king and queen of Thebes?
This type of poem consists of a octave followed by a sestet.
What is an Italian, or Petrarchan, sonnet?
Sophocles's age when he won his first drama competition.
What is 28.
The Greek name for a single flaw in character.
What is Hamartia?
A group of actors that move and sing together, acting as one character.
What is the Chorus?
Both mother and wife of Oedipus
Who is Jocasta?
The title, "The War Works Hard" includes this type of figurative language.
Who is personification?
The number of actors Sophocles cast in his plays.
What is 3?
Horrible truth that leads to this release in the audience.
What is catharsis?
The Greek word for actor.
What is hypokrites?
“Bury Eteocles but not Polyneices.”
What is the decree of Creon that begins the action of the play?
"One Art" is written in this French style of poetry.
What is a villanelle?