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Question Answer A-100 ANSWER: type of outside theater Greeks used QUESTION: What is an amphitheater?
Question Answer A-200 ANSWER: Name of the rows chorus used to enter QUESTION: What is the parados?
Question Answer A-300 ANSWER: the “seeing place” QUESTION: What is the theatron?
Question Answer A-400 ANSWER: the place for the chorus, the “dancing place” QUESTION: What is the orchestra?
Question Answer A-500 ANSWER: the 5 distinct segments of a drama QUESTION: What are the Prologue, Parados, Scenes, Odes, and Exodus?
Question Answer ANSWER: the cause of a hero’s downfall QUESTION: What is a tragic flaw? B-100
Question Answer B-200 ANSWER: Ex. “By avenging the murdered king I protect myself” QUESTION: What is dramatic irony?
Question Answer B-300 ANSWER: name for king who earns right, but not by birth QUESTION: What is Tyrannos?
Question Answer B-400 ANSWER: known as the reversal in plot QUESTION: What is peripeteia?
Question Answer B-500 ANSWER: the recognition in plot QUESTION: What is anagnorisis?
Question Answer C-100 ANSWER: first character that spoke in play QUESTION: Who is Oedipus?
Question Answer C-200 ANSWER: mother of Oedipus QUESTION: Who is Iocaste?
Question Answer C-300 ANSWER: insulted Oedipus where 3 roads met and hit him with a goad QUESTION: Who is King Laius?
Question Answer C-400 ANSWER: the God that Creon wanted to consult in Delphi, Iocaste makes offering to him later as well QUESTION: Who is Apollo?
Question Answer C-500 ANSWER: two daughters of Oedipus QUESTION: Who are Ismene and Antigone?
Question Answer D-100 ANSWER: Ex. “Even if he's caught in my own house: may the curse I pronounced on him strike me." QUESTION: What is irony?
Question Answer D-200 ANSWER: a play on ideas, seemingly contradicting QUESTION: What is a paradox?
Question Answer D-300 ANSWER: used as a symbol, the looming image where Oedipus was left to die QUESTION: What is Mount Kitharion?
Question Answer D-400 ANSWER: parallel dialogue, heightens tension QUESTION: What is stichomythia?
Question Answer D-500 ANSWER: although Teiresias is blind, he can see the truth (identify type) QUESTION: What is situational irony?
Question Answer E-100 ANSWER: held annual festival in honor or him, God of Wine and Fertility QUESTION: Who is Dionysus?
Question Answer E-200 ANSWER: the adoptive parents of Oedipus QUESTION: Who are King Polybus and Queen Merope?
Question Answer E-300 ANSWER: coined the term archetype QUESTION: Who is Carl Jung?
Question Answer E-400 ANSWER: given credit for actors speaking rather than singing QUESTION: Who is Thespis?
Question Answer E-500 ANSWER: means cleansing or emotional purging QUESTION: What is catharsis?
Question Answer FINAL JEOPARDY ANSWER: the 2 parts of the Ode QUESTION: What are the strophe and antistrophe?