Antigone: exposition and rising action.

The dramatist who wrote Antigone was...

• Aeschylus

• Sophocles

• Aristotle

• Alex Heydon

Tragedy is...

• a drama which recounts an important or connected series of events in the life of a person and ends unhappily

• a drama which recounts an important or connected series of events in the life of a person and ends happily

• a drama which recounts an unimportant or unconnected series of events and ends unhappily

• a report which recounts an important or connected series of events in the life of a person and ends unhappily

The first entrance of the chorus is called...

• the episodos

• the stasimon

• the parados

• the logos

Sophocles changed drama by adding a...

• second actor to the episodes

• musical part in the middle

• female actors

• third actor to the episodes

Who is an example of a tragic hero?

• Oedipus

• Creon

• Antigone

• Ismene

A tragic hero or heroine is someone who is capable of great __________.

In Antigone who is the current king of Thebes?

• Oedipus

• Creon

• Polynices

• Eteocles

Ismene is the __________ of Antigone.

Polynices asked which Greek city-state to help him overthrow Eteocles as king of Thebes

• Corinth

• Athens

• Argos

• Thebes

Creon's decree is that ...

• Polynices is a traitor and is not to be buried

• Eteocles is a traitor and is not to be buried

• Polynices and Eteocles are traitors and are not to be buried

• Polynices and Eteocles are to be buried with full funeral rites