Review for the test on Antigone
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| 5592165077 | Greek god of fertility and wine who is important to the study of Greek theater because plays were written for contests that occurred during his festival | Dionysus | 0 | |
| 5592165078 | a drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances. | Tragedy | 1 | |
| 5592165079 | Famous Greek playwrite who increased the number of actors to three, increased the number of members of the chorus to fifteen, and wrote plays that were not part of a trilogy. | Sophocles | 2 | |
| 5592165080 | King of Thebes who killed his father, Laius, married his mother, Jocasta, and had four children: Eteocles, Polynices, Ismene and Antigone. | Oedipus | 3 | |
| 5592165081 | he realized he had killed his father and married his mother (and had 4 children with her ew!) | Why did Oedipus blind himself? | 4 | |
| 5592165082 | a degree issued by a sovereign (king or queen) or other authority | edict | 5 | |
| 5592165083 | she respects the dead, loves her brother, and feels the heavens demand it is her duty to bury him | Why does Antigone feel strongly about burying Polynices' body? | 6 | |
| 5592165084 | Antigone's stubborn insistence on burying her brother has led to a death sentence | What does the Chorus mean when it tells Antigone, "Your own blind will, your passion has destroyed you"? | 7 | |
| 5592165085 | marriage and children | What lost potential does Antigone mourn as she is taken to her cave? | 8 | |
| 5592165086 | she has hanged herself | When Creon and the messenger arrive at the tomb what do they discover has happened to Antigone? | 9 | |
| 5592165087 | crying and clinging to Antigone's body | What is Haemon doing when they find him in Antigone's tomb? | 10 | |
| 5592165088 | bold and without shame | brazen | 11 | |
| 5592165089 | (n.) remorse, regret | compunction | 12 | |
| 5592165090 | loud and discordant noises, cacophony | din | 13 | |
| 5592165091 | (n.) an order issued by someone in authority | edict | 14 | |
| 5592165092 | action lacking in judgment, breaking the rules as a result of lack of judgment | indiscretion | 15 | |
| 5592165093 | "perks" that come along with something; the benefits | perquisites | 16 | |
| 5592165094 | tomb | sepulcher | 17 | |
| 5592165095 | (adj.) asking humbly and earnestly; (n.) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor | suppliant | 18 | |
| 5592165096 | uproar; pandemonium | tumult | 19 | |
| 5592165097 | going about in search of things to steal or people to attack | marauding | 20 | |
| 5592165098 | A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty"). | metonymy | 21 | |
| 5592165099 | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. | clause | 22 | |
| 5592165100 | A sentence consisting of one independent clause and no dependent clause | simple sentence | 23 | |
| 5592165101 | A sentence with two or more coordinate independent clauses, often joined by one or more conjunctions. | compound sentence | 24 | |
| 5592165102 | A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | complex sentence | 25 | |
| 5592165103 | at least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses | compound complex sentence | 26 | |
| 5592165104 | metonymy | Lend me your ears. | 27 | |
| 5592165106 | Greek word for myth | muthos | 28 | |
| 5592165107 | 7 main functions of myths in every culture | morals, history, explain creation, natural phenomena, etc. | 29 | |
| 5592165108 | Female Africica-American. She is a celebrated poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist. | Maya Angelou | 30 | |
| 5592165109 | A comparison of two unlike things without using the word like or as. | metaphor | 31 | |
| 5592165110 | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor | hyperbole | 32 | |
| 5592165111 | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | onomatopoeia | 33 | |
| 5592165112 | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes | personification | 34 | |
| 5592165113 | Repeated beginning consonant sounds. Example: The fog filtered over the field finally hiding the fence. | alliteration | 35 | |
| 5592165114 | Descriptive or figurative language in a literary work; the use of language to create sensory impressions. | imagery | 36 | |
| 5592165115 | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | apostrophe | 37 | |
| 5592165116 | A careful reading that is attentive to or organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocabulary, and other literary and structure elements of a text. | Close Reading | 38 | |
| 5592165117 | emerging literary criticism approach focusing on literature by female authors, previously ignored genres to which female authors were once limited and the representation of females in literature | feminist criticism | 39 | |
| 5592165118 | A literary theory that studies the role of economics, politics, and power in literature. | Marxist criticism | 40 | |
| 5592165119 | examining literature based on its symbols and patterns | archetypal criticism | 41 | |
| 5592165120 | criticism that focuses on understanding the psychology of the characters; based largely on the theories of Sigmund Freud. | psychoanalytical criticism | 42 | |
| 5592165121 | An approach to literature that uses history as a means of understanding a literary work more clearly. Such criticism moves beyond both the facts of an author's personal life and the text itself in order to examine the social and intellectual currents in which the author composed the work. | historical criticism | 43 | |
| 5592165122 | translates between the physical text and the mind of the reader. | reader response criticism | 44 | |
| 5592165123 | a difficult and sad situation | plight | 45 | |
| 5592165124 | (n.) weariness of body or mind, lack of energy | lassitude | 46 | |
| 5592165125 | (n.) One of the ancient Greek goddesses presiding over the arts; the imaginary source of inspiration for an artist or writer. (v.) To reflect deeply; to ponder. | muse | 47 | |
| 5592165126 | (v.) to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty | admonish | 48 | |
| 5592165127 | To sway physically; to be indecisive | vacillate | 49 | |
| 5592165128 | The quality of being able to produce the intended effect | efficacy | 50 | |
| 5592165129 | Changing one's mind quickly and often | capricious | 51 | |
| 5592165130 | a letter or literary composition in letter form | epistle | 52 | |
| 5592165131 | a hobby or secondary occupation | avocation | 53 | |
| 5592165132 | Emotionally hardened, unfeeling | callous | 54 | |
| 5592165133 | Inequality | disparity | 55 | |
| 5592165134 | a moving force, impulse, stimulus | impetus | 56 | |
| 5592165135 | (adj.) dying, on the way out | moribund | 57 | |
| 5592165136 | A recurring symbol, character, landscape, or event found in myth and literature across different cultures and eras. | archetype | 58 | |
| 5592165137 | inflexible; unyielding | inexorable | 59 | |
| 5592165138 | facial features | physiognomy | 60 | |
| 5592165139 | (adj) very hot, parching, burning; passionate | torrid | 61 | |
| 5592165140 | (adj.) related by blood; having similar qualities or character | akin | 62 | |
| 5592165141 | a group that attends an important person | retinue | 63 | |
| 5592165142 | (v.) to confirm, make more certain, bolster, substantiate, verify | corroborate | 64 | |
| 5592165143 | evil and wicked | nefarious | 65 | |
| 5592165144 | lacking interest or flavor | insipid | 66 | |
| 5592165145 | boredom | tedium | 67 | |
| 5592165146 | conversational; informal in language | colloquial | 68 | |
| 5592165147 | deriving from the orderly qualities of ancient Greek and Roman culture; implies formality, objectivity, simplicity and restraint | Classicism | 69 | |
| 5592165148 | An artistic style of the seventeenth century characterized by complex forms, bold ornamentation, and contrasting elements | baroque | 70 | |
| 5592165149 | Acceptance of artistic beauty; devotion to the arts, beauty, and poetry | Aestheticism | 71 | |
| 5592165150 | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | connotation | 72 | |
| 5592165151 | Feature often becomes recognized means of expression | convention | 73 | |
| 5592165152 | Thesis | The what + active verb + main idea or concept | 74 | |
| 5592165153 | body paragraph structure helper | TSFOOFOOCS | 75 | |
| 5592165154 | royal color of your essays | purple | 76 | |
| 5592165155 | Never introduce new info. in your conclusion | excrement | 77 | |
| 5592165156 | The dictionary definition of a word | denotation | 78 | |
| 5592165157 | a quotation, poem or passage at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme. | epigraph | 79 | |
| 5592165158 | a philosophical theory or approach that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will. | Existentialism | 80 | |
| 5592165159 | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. | dialect | 81 | |
| 5592165160 | Conversation between two or more characters | dialogue | 82 | |
| 5592165161 | A writer's or speaker's choice of words | diction | 83 | |
| 5592165162 | humorous misuse of a word | malapropism | 84 | |
| 5592165164 | (n) vocabulary specific to a group or occupation; convoluted or unintelligible language | jargon | 85 | |
| 5592165165 | the customs, manner of speech, dress, or other typical features of a place or period that contribute to its particular character | local color | 86 | |
| 5592165166 | Modern Language Association; Guidelines for documenting and citing sources during a research project. | MLA | 87 | |
| 5592165167 | transcendentalism | A nineteenth-century movement in the Romantic tradition, which held that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition, which transcends reason and sensory experience. | 88 | |
| 5592165168 | surrealism | An artistic movement that displayed vivid dream worlds and fantastic unreal images | 89 | |
| 5592165169 | tone | Attitudes and presuppositions of the author that are revealed by their linguistic choices (diction, syntax, rhetorical devices) | 90 | |
| 5592165170 | mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 91 | |
| 5592165171 | pseudonym | (n.) a pen name, name assumed by a writer | 92 | |
| 5592165172 | realism | A 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be | 93 | |
| 5592165173 | romanticism | 19th century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason | 94 | |
| 5592165174 | satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. | 95 | |
| 5592165175 | affront | an insult | 96 | |
| 5592165177 | cajole | (v.) to coax, persuade through flattery or artifice; to deceive with soothing thoughts or false promises | 97 | |
| 5592165178 | feckless | (adj.) lacking in spirit and strength; ineffective, weak; irresponsible, unreliable | 98 | |
| 5592165179 | impasse | blocked path; dilemma with no solution | 99 | |
| 5592165180 | indolent | habitually lazy or idle | 100 | |
| 5592165181 | blase' | bored because of frequent indulgence; unconcerned | 101 | |
| 5592165182 | synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound") | 102 | |
| 5592165183 | Virgil | Roman Poet and Symbol of Reason for Dante | 103 | |
| 5592165184 | anaphora | A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentences. | 104 | |
| 5592165185 | incontinence | failure to restrain self/upper most levels of Dante's Hell | 105 | |
| 5592165186 | tercet | three line stanza | 106 | |
| 5592165187 | apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 107 | |
| 5592165188 | biblical allusion | reference to the Bible in a work of literature | 108 | |
| 5592165189 | mythological allusion | reference to mythology in a work of literature. | 109 | |
| 5592165190 | symbolic retribution | the punishment matches the crime | 110 | |
| 5592165191 | Dante Alighieri | an Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321) | 111 | |
| 5592165192 | Virgil | A great poet who wrote the Aeneid and Dante's chosen guide through hell. | 112 | |
| 5592165193 | Canto 1 | Midway in my life's journey, I lost my way. The lion and the leopard and the she-wolf. Introduction of Virgil. | 113 | |
| 5592165197 | Canto 5 | Francesca and Paolo- Incontinence | 114 | |
| 5592165199 | Canto 34 | Satan's hairy flank as a staircase out of hell | 115 | |
| 5592165200 | Minos | Semi-bestial judge of the damned | 116 | |
| 5592165201 | Courtly Love | How can Dante and Beatrice's love best be defined? An idealized and often illicit form of love celebrated in the literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in which a knight or courtier devotes himself to a noblewoman who is usually married and feigns indifference to preserve her reputation. | 117 | |
| 5592165202 | adulation | (n.) praise or flattery that is excessive | 118 | |
| 5592165203 | censure | (v.) to criticize harshly | 119 | |
| 5592165204 | dissemble | (v.) to disguise or conceal, deliberately give a false impression | 120 | |
| 5592165205 | dissimulation | (n.) concealment of one's thoughts, feelings, or character; pretense | 121 | |
| 5592165206 | droll | (adj.) amusingly odd | 122 | |
| 5592165207 | expectorate | (v.) To cough up and spit forth. | 123 | |
| 5592165208 | palpate | (v).medical term meaning to examine with the hands; to fell; to examine by feeling | 124 | |
| 5592165210 | pusillanimous | (adj.) cowardly; fearful | 125 | |
| 5592165211 | surfeit | (n.) an excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust; (v.) to feed or supply with anything to excess | 126 | |
| 5592180386 | pun | A humorous play on words | 127 | |
| 5592183742 | loose sentence | A complex sentence in which the main clause comes first and the subordinate clause follows | 128 | |
| 5592184117 | periodic sentence | sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | 129 |
