Antigone Vocabulary

Match the vocabulary terms to their definitions.

• A struggle or clash between characters

• Piety

• Oppressive or unjust rule by a ruler

• Protagonist

• quality of being religious or reverent

• Conflict

• Firmly determined; unwavering.

• Resolute

• The main character in a story or play.

• Tyranny

A serious drama typically describing a conflict between the protagonist and a superior force, leading to a disastrous conclusion.

• Irony

• Tragedy

• Fate

• An inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior.

Excessive pride or arrogance, often leading to the downfall of a tragic hero.

• Conflict

• Chorus

• Hubris

• Tragic flaw

The character or force in conflict with the protagonist.

• Antagonist

• Catastrophe

• Tyranny

• Irony

A group of characters in Greek tragedy who comment on the action of the play.

• Foreshadowing

• Conscience

• Civil disobedience

• Chorus

A situation in which a difficult choice must be made between two undesirable options.

• Hubris

• Dilemma

• Catastrophe

• Injustice

The predetermined course of events in a person's life, often seen as an external force in Greek tragedy.

• Protagonist

• Tragic flaw

• Fate

• Piety

The final resolution or outcome of a tragedy, often involving the protagonist's downfall.

• Irony

• Catastrophe

• Ethical dilemma

• Resolute

A literary device in which an author gives hints or clues about future events in the story.

• Foreshadowing

• Chorus

• Tragedy

• Conscience

A literary device involving a contrast between what is expected and what actually happens.

• Hubris

• Ethical dilemma

• Foreshadowing

• Irony