Literary Devices
"... the sun's bowstring..." (pg. 12).
What is a kenning?
Oedipus' eagerness to find out the truth about King Laios' death
What is determination?
Slaves, peasants, and craftsmen's are a part of which social class?
What is low class?
Protagonist
What is Oedipus?
excessive pride
What is hubris?
Iocaste hanging herself
What is shame?
Farmers are a part of which social class?
What is the middle class?
Blinded herself because of guilt
What is Iocaste?
This quote is an example of what..?
"Listen to me. You mock my blindness, do you? But i say that you, with both you eyes, are blind:" (pg. 22)
What is Foreshadowing?
What is causing Oedipus to block out the truth?
What is his pride?
Laios, Oedipus, Iocaste, Polybus, and Merope are a part of which social class?
What is the upper class?
Brother of Iocaste
What is Creon?
What is this an example of..?
"I pray that that man's life be consumed in evil and wretchedness" (pg. 14).
What is verbal irony?
Refusing to see the truth represents what theme?
What is blindness?
Who is the God Oedipus and his people prayed to?
Who is Apollo?
Head of a woman, body of a lion.
What is sphinx?
What is this an example of...?
"Why did you shelter me? When I was cast upon you, Why did I not die? Then I should never have shown the world my execrable birth." (pg. 74)
What is catharsis?
Oedipus goes to Thebes in an attempt to alter his..?
What is fate?
Where Oedipus was told by the Oracle that he would marry his mother and kill his father
What is the Delphi?
Adoptive parents of Oedipus
What is Polybus and Merope?