Antigone

Question 1

Drao

Answer 1

to act

Question 2

agon

Answer 2

contest

Question 3

chief role of foil character in a play

Answer 3

to contrast a main character

Question 4

comedy can either be _____ or _____

Answer 4

farse or satire

Question 5

the plot of a play is the ________

Answer 5

sequence of events

Question 6

the theme of a play is the _____

Answer 6

message

Question 7

Tragos

Answer 7

goat song

Question 8

Dionysus

Answer 8

god of agriculture

Question 9

Who is the first actor?
When did he first act?
Who was he imitating?

Answer 9

Thespus
534 BC
Dionysus

Question 10

The action of a story typically follows a standard sequence of events. Describe it

Answer 10

exposition-rising action (conflict)-climax-falling action (denouement)-resolution

Question 11

theatron-

Answer 11

the seeing place

Question 12

skene-

Answer 12

the “set” or structure where the acting takes place

Question 13

proskene-

Answer 13

steps in front of skene

Question 14

cothurni-

Answer 14

tall sandals to appear larger

Question 15

parados-

Answer 15

aisles in seating

Question 16

What was the big circle in the middle of a greek theater for?

Answer 16

the chorous

Question 17

what are the names for the two different groups of chorus that alternate their chants?

Answer 17

strophe and antistrophe

Question 18

What queen in the 1500’s helped get theater popular again? What is the name for this age of theater?

Answer 18

• Queen elizabeth

- Renaissance early theater

Question 19

Modern theater utilizes what kind of set?

Answer 19

the box set

Question 20

Antigone follows what sequence of actions? similar to rising action, falling action, etc.

Answer 20

Prologue, Parados, 5 alternating scenes and odes, Paen, exodus

Question 21

Aristotle was a student of _____

Answer 21

Plato

Question 22

Aristotle says four things about plays. the fourth is a list but dont list it.

Answer 22

1. tragedy is usually within a 24 hour period
2. the hero is high born
3. the main characters are more magnanimous than common man
4. 6 things must happen

Question 23

according to aristotle, what 6 things are required of a greek tragedy

Answer 23

1. Plot
2. anagnorisis and peripeteia
3. thought (what is the central concept)
4. diction (spoken)
5. music (chorous)
6. spectacle (staging of the play)

Question 24

The understanding that must happen in a greek tragedy (by the main character?)

Answer 24

anagnorisis

Question 25

a change in character after a mistake

Answer 25

peripeteia

Question 26

hamartia-

Answer 26

mistake made

Question 27

the french called the staging of a play the _____

Answer 27

mise en scene. we call them props

Question 28

Haimon uses what metaphor to describe his father’s stubbornness?

Answer 28

trees that bend vs. ones that don’t

Question 29

What is the main point of Taplin’s essay?

Answer 29

A tragedy is a failure if it does not move the audience emotionally or evoke a sense of pity