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What does the priest an Oedipus to do

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Save the city from the plague

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What are the people of Thebes suffering from

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Plague

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What two reasons to the thebans have to pleading to iedipus for help

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He was kind and aced them from Sphinx

He was chosen by the gods

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What initial step does Oedipus indicate he has already taken

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Sends cream to talk to the oracle

Attached to Apollo

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What is the significance of Delphi

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Seat of primary oracle that creon goes to cunsult

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What is an oracle

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Someone who is connected with gods who can tell the truth and predict he future

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What is the message creon was given from the oracle at Delphi

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The killer of Laius must be killed or banished

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What was murdered long go

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Laius

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What single clue about the murdered does creon reveal

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He was killed while traveling by a group of bandits

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What prevented the thebans from tracking down he murderer of Laius at the time the murder occurred

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The Sphinx they were being terrorized so the couldnt focus their attention of the murder

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What is the first impression of oedipos as a person and ruler

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He’s devoted to making things right but he is arrogant

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What is oedipos decree regarding the fate of the murderer

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He doesn’t do anything worse then banishment if anyone who hides the murder they will be banished
Eternal damnation

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What is the munition of the chorus

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Elders of Thebes

Interact with actors and audience

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Why does Teiresias refuse to tell Oedipus what he knows

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He fears his own well being and causing trouble

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How does Oedipus react when Teiresias reveals to him the truth

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He doesn’t believe him and then he accused Tiresias and creon of trying to overthrow him
Denying fatal flaw

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What does Oedipus say in anger is offensive to the gods

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He compared human wit to the knowledge given by the Gods

Compares himself to the oracle

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What is the significance of Teiresias to the gif Apollo

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He serves Apollo and gives insight

Oedipus is attacking a representative of Apollo

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Whom does Oedipus assumed is being Teiresias claims

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Creon

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List 4 of the many prophecies Tiresias gives to Oedipus regarding the murder of kind Laius

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Says the murderer of the mane you looking for us you
Tells him he has an unnatural relationship with family
He is blind
Going to be a banished beggar

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What two reasons does choragos give Oedipus for believe ing creon is innocent

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He has always been honest

He wouldn’t want to be king anyway

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What reason does Oedipus give to prove that Teiresias is wrong

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Tireseas didn’t save city from the Sphinx

He couldn’t have murdered him the crown was given to him

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What does creon argue to prove he is not guilty of treason

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He is so sure that he is not guilty he is willing to die

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Why does Jocasta have no faith in the oracles of seers and prophets

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Her Prophecy didn’t come true

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Why does Oedipus suspect that Tiresias might have been right

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Jocasta describes the ace where Oedipus killed someone

The place where three roads meet

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What account from the shepherd may clear Oedipus name

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Multiple people killed Luis

Shepard lied because he didn’t want to look bad and to protect himself

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Why does the messengers ménage make Jocasta so joyful

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Polybus was dead

Oedipus didn’t kill him the prophecy was wrong

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According to Jocasta why should Oedipus have no fear of sleeping with his mother

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The father is dead the prophecy is untrue

She says many men sleep with mothers in dreams

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Why does the messenger tell Oedipus to prove that his fears are groundless

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Oedipus is adopted anyway

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Why does Jocasta want the questioning at the end

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She knows he truth

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When does Jocasta know the truth

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When the messenger says the baby was given to him with his feet pinned together
He was found at citharon

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Why does Oedipus assume that Jocasta wants the questioning to end

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He things she is afraid of finding out he was born of a Lowe class

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Oedipus is about to interrogate the shepherd which characters has he already cross examined in an effort to solve the mystery of Laius murderer and his own identity

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Tiresias and the messenger

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Why do you think the shepherd bursts in so angrily here

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He thinks he will get in trouble

He knows the truth

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Who else in the play so fat has called Oedipus unhappy because of his desire to learn more

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Jocasta and the shepherd

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How does Jocasta die

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She hangs herself

Didn’t want to face all of the truth and her problems

35
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As Oedipus stormed into the palace do you think he intended to harm Jocasta

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No when he aks creon at the end of the play to bury her he still cares for her
Or maybe yes idk

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Explain what Oedipus does to himsel

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Takes the pins from jocastas dress and stabs his eyes to blind himself

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Why does Oedipus choose blinding himself rather than committing suicide

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He can’t beat to look at the faces of his parents when he dies and he can’t bear to look at his children or the people of Thebesl
Act of cowardice

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Why does Oedipus wish for all of Thebes to see him in his present condition

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He wants thm to see the results of his sins so then won’t make they same mistakes he did

39
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What does choragos mean when he says to Oedipus you suffer it all twice over

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When he loses his father he is the murderer
He lost his wife and his mother
He lost his children and his siblings
He is banished and he has to live with it

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Pathos

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You feel sympathy for Oedipus

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Recognition

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When shepherd tells him he is the baby

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How does Oedipus exhibit the qualities of a tragic hero

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He was a good kind who cared

He was pride stubborn pompous judgemental and had a temper

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In the beginning of the Pali why have to priests come to the alter at Thebes

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The came to pray for an end to the plague

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Explain how Oedipus once liberated Thebes

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Saved them from the Sphinx

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According to creon what does Apollo want done

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Oedipus must find who killed Laius and kill or banish him

46
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Who are the members of chorus representing

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Royals and counsellors

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Why has Oedipus sent for Tiresias

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To find the murderer

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What accusation does Tiresias make

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Oedipus is the murderer

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What prediction does Tiresias make

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Oedipus will be a blind begged and outcast

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What does iedipus suspect creon of

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Trying to overthrow him

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According to creon why is Oedipus wrong

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Creon is already happy without responsibility

52
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What happened to the slave that witnessed Lauis murder

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Begged Jocasta to be cast away as a shepherd

Didn’t want Oedipus to kill him

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Who were polybua and merope

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King and queen of Corinth

54
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What did the drunken man tell Oedipus

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Polybus and merope weren’t his real parents

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Why did Oedipus run away from home

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He didn’t want to kill polybua and marry merope

He heard the prophecy about himself

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Why did Oedipus kill the travellers

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Argument over right of way on the road

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What news does the messenger bring

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Polybua is dead

Oedipus is king of Corinth

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How did the messenger know that polybua was not Oedipus father

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He is the one that gave Oedipus to his adoptive parents

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How did Oedipus get his name

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His feet were pinned together

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What advice does Jocasta give about trying to solve the mystery of his birth

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She begs them to stop looking for the truth

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Why didn’t the shepherd kill the baby

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He had pity for it

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What happened to Jocasta

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Hung herself

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Dramatic irony

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We know something the characters don’t
Oedipus says he’ll do anything to stop the plague but he is the reason for it
He says he’s never seen Laius
He says the murderer might try to kill him
He curses himself
Jocasta knows the truth

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Foreshadowing

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Creon wearing a crown from Apollo
Tiresias tell Oedipus about the future
“Totally will furnish you a birthday and a death”

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Archetypal character

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Type of character who appears in many stories peoms films etc
Tiresias is an old wise man

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Internal rhyme

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Rhyming of words with in a line of poetry not just at the end

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Alliteration

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Repeated of consonant sounds usually at the beginning of words

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Assonance

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Repeated vowel sounds in the middle of words

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Enjambment

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Continuation of a single thought from one line of poetry to another —

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Repetition

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Repeated sounds words phrases to create mood

For emphasis state of mind

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Mood

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Feeling created by the reader using sound choices and setting

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Allusion

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reference to outside work even or history

Mythology bible Shakespeare

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration to show distinct feelings

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Metaphor

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Direct comparison between to unlike things

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Similar

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Comparison between two unlike things Iain like or as

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Extended metaphor

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Entire work used for comparison

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Theatron

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Where people sit

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Thymele

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Alter

Sometimes sacrifices occur

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Parados

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2 on each side

Entrance of the chorus

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Orchestra

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Plays where chorus stands and dances

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Skene

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Backdrop

Places where actors dress

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Paraskene

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2 placed on either side of Skene

Where they would lower props

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