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The wife of Oedipus, mother of Oedipus, Antigone, and Ismene.
Who is Jocasta?
100
This is the answer to the riddle the Syphx asks?
What is a man?
100

Jocasta completely dismissing prophecies is an example of which device?

What is a transgression?

100
The reason the citizens were asking for help at the beginning of the play
What is the plague?
100
Who is the head god of Olympus
Who is Zeus?
200

The name of Oedipus's Father and Previous King of Thebes.

Who is the Laius?

200

Creon learns that the king's killer is in Thebes when he travels to this place

What is the oracle at Delphi

200

Oedipus's tragic flaw.

What is Hubris?

200

Why Oedipus left Corinth.

what is his prophecy?
200

Which philosopher coined the term for ideal shapes or prototypes?

Who is Socrates?

300
This group expresses the general views of the public.
What is the chorus?
300
This blind prophet knows the truth about Oedipus
Who is Teiresias?
300
This literary device uses of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature
What is foreshadowing
300
Told Oedipus the story of how the oracle had been wrong and should not be trusted.
Who is Jocasta?
300

Myths are known to teach lessons; what is the term for this?

What is didactic?

400

The god who is responsible for sending the plague

Who is Apollo?

400

Oedipus accuses Tiresias and ______ of trying to set him up.

Who is Creon?

400

a situation where the  opposite of what the reader thinks will occur actually happens.

What is situational irony?

400

Oedipus threatens to either ______ or ______ the murderer of Laius once found.

What is kill or banish?

400
A messenger from Corinth comes to tell Oedipus that this has happened
What is his father has died?
500
Name one of the adoptive parents of Oedipus.
Who are Polybus and Merope?
500

Head of a woman, body of a lion. Gave the riddle that Oedipus solved.

What is the Sphinx?

500
This definition of dramatic irony is
When the audience knows/understands something that a character in the literature does not know.
500

Once Jocasta learns the truth about her son/husband, she __________

Kills herself

500
Who wrote Oedipus?
Who is Sophocles?