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1 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Words to Live by You Gotta Have Friends What’s the Story? You can say that again It’s All Greek To Me

2 Great pride

3 hubris

4 A release of pent-up emotion

5 catharsis

6 A startling discovery or moment of epiphany

7 anagnorisis

8 A sudden reversal in fortune from good to bad

9 peripetia

10 A character flaw in the protagonist

11 hamartia

12 The rightful heir to the throne of Thebes

13 Creon

14 Mother and wife to the King of Thebes

15 Jocasta

16 Spectators of the events unfolding during the play

17 Chorus

18 The character who served as the mouthpiece of Apllo

19 Tiresius

20 This person begs Oedipus for his help

21 A priest

22 After finding Jocasta dead, Oedipus does this.

23 Blinds himself

24 Oedipus learns of his true identity after hearing from this character.

25 Herdsman

26 Oedipus saying “I will never come near my parents” is an example of this literary term.

27 Dramatic or situational irony

28 As he listens to Tiresius, Oedipus’ wild assumptions cause him to believe this

29 Creon is plotting against him

30 When Jocasta first comes on the stage, it is to do this.

31 Stop the fighting between Oedipus and Creon

32 “You mock my blindness, but you, who have eyes, cannot see the evil in which you stand.”

33 Tiresius

34 “May I never enjoy life, but perish under a curse, if I have don’t to you the things you say.”

35 Oedipus

36 “From now on, where oracles are concerned, I would not waste a second thought on any.”

37 Jocasta

38 “You do wrong to take good men for bad, bad men for good.”

39 Creon

40 “Judgments too quickly formed are dangerous.”

41 Chorus

42 It was the key to a character’s identity

43 mask

44 It is where the ancient Greek dramas were performed

45 Outdoor theaters

46 He was the first known actor

47 Thespis

48 This god was the subject of many early Greek dramas

49 Dionysus

50 A Latin term that now means an event that could not happen without divine intervention

51 Deus ex machine

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