POWERPOINT JEOPARDY

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Oedipus Rex!
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Figurative Language Quotation Identification Greek Tragedy Greek Theatre Plot
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• Your own eyes must tell you Thebes is tossed on
  a murdering sea and cannot lift her head from the
  death surge. A rust consumes the buds of the
  earthDeath alone battens upon the misery of
  Thebes.

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• Metaphor

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• I who saw your days call no man blestyour great
  days like ghosts gone.

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• simile

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Question 1 - 30

• Creon
• That above all I must dispute with you
• Oedipus
• That above all I will not hear you deny.

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• Repetition

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• Poor children! You may be sure I know all that
  you longed in your coming here. I know that you
  are deathly sick and yet, sick as you are, no
  one is as sick as I.

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• Verbal Irony

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• The Delphic stone of prophecies remembers ancient
  regicide and a still bloody hand.

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• Personification

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• Why should anyone in this world be afraid, since
  fate rules us and nothing can be foreseen? A man
  should live only for the present day.

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• Jocasta

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• No man can judge that rough unknown or trust in
  second sight, for wisdom changes hands among the
  wise.

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• Chorus

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• Listen to me you mock my blindness do you? But I
  say that you, with both your eyes, are blind. You
  cannot see the wretchedness of your life.

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• Teiresias

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• I say I take the sons part, just as though I
  were his son, to press the fight for him and see
  it won!

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• Oedipus

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• Think of this first would any sane man prefer
  power, with all the kings anxieties, to the same
  power of grace and sleep?

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• Creon

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• O Lord Apollo! May your news be as fair as your
  face radiant.

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• Invocation

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• The tyrant who drinks from his great sickening
  cup recklessness and vanity, until from his high
  crest headlong he plummets to the dust of hope

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• Peripeteia

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• Oedipusthe simple man who knows nothingI
  thought it out myself, no birds to help me!

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• Hubris

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• All the prophecies!Now, O Light, may I look on
  you for the last time, I Oedipus, Oedipus damned
  in his birth, damned in his marriage!

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• Anagnorisis

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• Jocasta
• Set your mind at rest, if it is a question of
  soothsayers, I tell you that you will find no man
  whose craft gives knowledge of the unknowable.
  Here is my proof
• Oedipus
• Just now while you were speaking it chilled my
  heart.

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• irony

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• The structure where the play takes place is
  __________?

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• ampitheater

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• Name two functions of the Chorus

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• Sing and dance
• Retell a scene
• Give advice
• Act as the voice of the audience.

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• Name two functions of an actors mask.

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• Show emotion
• Differentiate between characters
• Increase visibility

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• According to Greek legend, who was the god of
  theater?

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• Dionysus

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• What type of structures were plays performed
  near/beside?

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• Hospitals or healing centers

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• Outline the state of Thebes at the beginning of
  the play. Cite two specific examples.

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• Affected by plague death, sickness, famine.

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• Outline the parts of Oedipus proclamation to
  Thebes.

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• Murderer will be exiled
• Accomplices will be ostracized
• May not protect this person
• Oedipus himself is not exempt

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• What type of diction does Sophocles use to
  discuss the concept of truth in the play? Hint
  think about Teiresias.

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• Sight and blindess

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• What does Oedipus ask of Creon in the end of the
  play?

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• Bury Jocasta
• Exhile him
• Protect his daughters

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• What is the main moral of the play as stated by
  the Chorus at the end of the Exodos?

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• Dont take your good fortune for granted, every
  man is weak.