1. Antigone Jeopardy

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3. FINAL JEOPARDY
This is one reason why Creon changed his mind about Antigone’s method of execution.

4. ______ is a story that is enacted in real space and time by live actors for a live audience.
Drama

5. A play that ends unhappily.
Tragedy

6. Generally a good person, superiority over others, has a tragic flaw, realizes the flaw, then has a tragic demise
Tragic hero

7. This group of people would sing and chant on stage
This group of people would sing and chant on stage. In the beginning of Antigone, they tell us a civil war has just been fought
Chorus

8. Haemon uses a _____ to compare Creon to trees in a flood
Metaphor

9. In a tragedy, the protagonist is called this.
Tragic hero

10. This protagonist must possess this quality.
A fatal (tragic) flaw

11. This character is the tragic hero in Antigone.

12. A ______ is a personal failing such as pride, rebelliousness, or jealousy
Tragic flaw

13. The overwhelming pride that Antigone and Creon have is:
Hubris

14. Creon decrees that this person must not be buried.
Polynieces

15. This character fears breaking Creon’s law because the punishment is so severe.
Ismene

16. This is the punishment for breaking Creon’s law.
Public stoning

17. Antigone prefers to follow these laws.
The gods’ laws

18. (DAILY DOUBLE) Creon sentences Antigone to this, changing his mind about the original decree.
To be locked in a stone vault (cave)

19. This character tries to kill his/her father, then turns the sword on him/herself.
Haemon

20. This character tries to share the blame of breaking the law, but Creon sets him/her free.
Ismene

21. This character commits suicide by hanging.
Antigone

22. These two characters die in battle.
Polynieces and Eteocles

23. This character stabs him/herself in the castle.
Eurydice

24. “I, as you know, in right of kinship nearest to the dead, possess the throne and take the supreme power”
Creon

25. “We must remember we are women born, unapt to cope with men”
Ismene

26. “There lives no greater fiend than Anarchy”
Creon

27. “And though a man be wise, it is no shame for him to live and learn, and not to stretch a course too far”
Haemon

28. “A city is no city that is of one man only”
Haemon