Literary Elements
What is Oedipus' tone when he calls Teiresias a "deceitful beggar-priest"?
What is insulting, irrational, prideful, etc.?
Oedipus becomes king of Thebes this way
What is he answers the Sphinx's riddle.
The man that Oedipus killed
Who is Laius
Would sing and wear masks
What is the Chorus?
A force that ancient Greeks believed could not be avoided.
What is fate?
The blind prophet Teiresias tells Oedipus, "You are all ignorant. I will never reveal my dreadful secrets—or rather, yours."
What literary element is this?
Where Laios was when he was killed.
What is a place where 3 roads meet?
The Blind Prophet
Who is Teiresias?
Writer of the play.
Who is Sophocles?
To violate or make filthy/impure?
What is to defile?
Oedipus promises to find the killer to save Thebes; he acts as the city's savior while actually being its destroyer.
What literary element is this?
What is irony?
What Oedipus thinks about Creon after his talk with Teiresias.
What is that he's trying to take over the throne.
The city that Oedipus grew up in
What is Corinth
What is a large mask?
To press with requests or demands; to crowd around and harass.
What is to besiege?
What is symbolic about the location of Iocaste's death?
What is the circle of life?
What is the prophecy given to Laios?
What is your son will be the one who murders you?
Saved baby Oedipus from the mountain top.
Who is the Shepherd?
A protagonist who experiences a large downfall due to personal flaws and external forces.
What is a Tragic Hero?
The (blank) strangers.
What is symbolic about the location of Laios' death?
What are the 3 crossroads--which are moments between fate and choice, or decision-making?
What is the prophecy given to Oedipus?
What is you will marry your mother and kill your father?
Site of the oracle of the god Apollo.
What is Delphi?
List the three unities of a Greek Tragedy.
What is the Unity of Action, the Unity of Place, and the Unity of Time?
A place where a dead body is buried. (Spelled right!)
What is a sepulcher?
Teiresias tells Oedipus he is "blind" to his own identity and that the murderer he seeks is himself.
What TWO literary elements does this reveal?
What is foreshadowing and symbolism?
What does Oedipus' name mean?
What is "swollen foot"?
Oedipus' 'step' parents are....
Who are Polybus and Merope?
What is an Ode?
What is a lyrical poem that uses imagery and figurative language to describe the protagonist's journey?
A Greek concept, meaning "excessive pride/confidence," likely to anger the gods.