The wife of Oedipus, and mother of Oedipus, Antigone, and Ismene.
Who is Jocasta?
100
The term used when the audience watches the actions of the tragic hero and is moved to pity and fear.
What is Catharsis?
100
This is used for the first time in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex.
What is Dramatic Irony?
100
The inciting incident/problem in The Prologue.
What is the Plague?
100
This gives the background information needed to understand the events of the play.
What is the Prologue?
200
Head of a woman, body of a lion. Gave the riddle that Oedipus solved.
What is the Sphinx?
200
The moment when the hero makes a critical discovery.
What is Anagnorisis?
200
Explain one way in which Sophocles improved Greek Theatre.
What is: Sophocles expanded using stage machinery and sets. He was the first to use a crane to “miraculously” lower and take away actors. He also used painted scenery and masks.
200
Why Oedipus left Corinth.
What is: he was afraid he would kill his father and marry his mother (prophesy).
200
What the actors wear to convey their emotions.
What are masks?
300
Part of the play that expresses the general views of the public.
What is the Chorus?
300
The Greek word for the flaw that causes the hero's downfall.
What is Hamartia?
300
Sophocles' hidden talent.
What is acting?
300
Told Oedipus the story of how the oracle had been wrong and should not be trusted.
Who is Jocasta?
300
Greek plays were originally competitions for prizes by staging plays before thousands of spectators at the festival of this Greek God.
Who is Dionysus?
400
Brother in law to Oedipus.
Who is Creon?
400
Another word for excessive pride (and Oedipus's tragic flaw).
What is hubris?
400
Place where Sophocles was born.
What is Colonus.
400
Literary Term used here: Oedipus is determined to find the person who killed Laius and solve the mystery of his lineage.
What is Dramatic Irony?
400
Sung by the chorus as it makes its final exit, which usually offers words of wisdom related to the actions and outcome of the play.
What is the Exodus?
500
The adoptive parents of Oedipus.
Who are Polybus and Merope?
500
A reversal of fortune.
What is Peripeteia?
500
Name the three plays in our book that still exist today (only seven exist in their entirety).
What is OEDIPUS, ANTIGONE, & OEDIPUS AT COLONUS?
500
The English translation of the Greek word, "Oedipus"
What is "swollen ankles" ?
500
The leader of the chorus who often interacts with the characters in the scenes.