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Okonk...who?
Antigone
Word
Literary Elements
Little bit of this and that
100
A sacred cave where a priest or priestess spoke for a god or goddess.
What is oracle?
100
Antigone's father who married his mother and killed his father.
Who is Oedipus?
100
Define famished.
What is starving/hungry?
100
Describes the main thought or principal theme of a work of literature.
Central Idea
100
Okonkwo's tragic flaw
What is his fear of weakness?
200
Theme of Things Fall Apart
What is change vs. tradition?
200
Chorus. Now the long blade of the sun, lying Level east to west, touches with glory Thebes of the Seven Gates. Open, unlidded Eye of golden day! O marching light Across the eddy and rush of Dirce’s stream, Striking the white shields of the enemy Thrown headlong backward from the blaze of morning! What is being described?
What is morning sun shining down on the enemy army?
200
What does "burning with self consciousness" mean?
What is being aware of one's self.
200
The reason an author decides to write about a specific topic.
Author's Purpose
200
What is a surrogate?
a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others
300
What is the District Commissioner's view of the Ibo people?
What are savages?
300
Antigone chooses to follow the law of the _________ instead of her Uncle Creon's laws.
What is Gods?
300
Define eccentric.
What is odd/unusual?
300
A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels.
What is tone?
300
Which day is our final exam?
1st- Monday 3rd-Tuesday 4th-Tuesday
400
What causes things to fall apart in Okonkwo's clan?
Colonization
400
Who is the antagonist and protagonist of the play?
Antagonist- Creon Protagonist- Antigone
400
Define Hearsay.
What is a rumor?
400
A contrast or discrepancy between what is stated and what is really meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen.
What is irony?
400
Who has a corn-cob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal?
Frosty the Snowman!!!!
500
Which character begins to question the Ibo traditions and eventually converts to Christianity?
Who is Nwoye?
500
Antigone's tragic flaw.
What is stubbornness?
500
Define Prophesy.
What is a predictions about the future.
500
A literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy
What is a tragic hero?
500
What is an autobiography?
An account of the writer's own life.