“You have no power or truth. You are blind, your ears and mind as well as eyes.”
Who is Oedipus?
100
A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
A comparison of two unlike things NOT using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
100
Pride
Who is Oedipus?
100
The "seeing place" where the audience sat
What is the theatron?
200
“Take my advice, I beg you—do not go on with the search.”
Who is Jocasta?
200
An indirect reference to another literary work
What is an allusion?
200
exaggeration that is used for effect
What is hyperbole?
200
Blind prophet
Who is Tiresias?
200
A rectangular building with three doors; provides a backdrop for the play
What is the skene?
300
"Therefore we must call no man happy while he waits to see his last day, not until he has passed the border of life and death without suffering and pain.”
Who is the Chorus?
300
When what the character thinks is true is different from what the audience knows to be true
What is dramatic irony?
300
Levelheadedness
Who is Creon?
300
Two broad aisles used by the chorus
What are the parados?
400
"Look at you, sullen in yielding, brutal in your rage—
you will go too far. It's perfect justice:
natures like yours are hardest on themselves."
Who is Creon?
400
A warning or indication of a future event
What is foreshadowing?
400
The difference between what is expected to happen in a play and what actually happens
What is situational irony?
400
Thinks he/she outsmarted the gods
Who is Jocasta?
400
The place where the chorus danced
What is the orchestra?
500
"So, you mock my blindness? Let me tell you this. You with your precious eyes, you're blind to the corruption of your life, to the house you live in, those you live with-who are your parents? Do you know?"
Who is Tiresias?
500
What is said by the character is intentionally the opposite of what is meant
What is verbal irony?
500
Giving human characteristics to a nonhuman
What is personification?
500
Represents the people of Thebes
Who is the Chorus?
500
An item used to denote a persona--the character the actor is playing