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What is a prologue?

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The first scene, occurs before the chorus enters

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What are the stanza forms in poetry?

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Couplet, triplet, quatrain, quintet, sestet, septet, and octave

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Who is Atticus Finch?

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A lawyer in a small southern town who defends a Negro

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What do the bluejays and mad dog represent in TKAM?

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Prejudice

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What is a compound-complex sentence?

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A sentence that contains two or more independent clauses and at least one dependent clause

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What is a harmatia?

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Fatal or tragic flaw that leads to the hero’s downfall

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What is a rhyme?

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Repetition of like sounds

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What is a Haiku?

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A serious poem that focuses on creating one vivid picture or image; 3 lines

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What is a fragment?

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A group of words wrongly punctuated as if it were a complete sentence

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What are the four main themes in TKAM?

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Prejudice, courage, humanity, and education/knowledge

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What are the five different types of imagery?

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Visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, and olfactory

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12
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What is metonymy?

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Using a word to stand for a closely related idea or thing. Ex: crown, refers to king

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What is an adjective clause?

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Describes or modifies a noun or pronoun in another clause; introduced by relative pronouns or relative adverbs

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What is a Deus ex machina?

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Common device in Greek tragedy (character would literally descended into action from above)

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What is a strophe?

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Indicates right to left movement of chorus

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Who is Bob Ewell?

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Irresponsible, disgraceful, lazy, alcoholic father

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Who is Boo (Arthur Radley)?

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The mysterious neighbor whom the children have never met

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What is a clause?

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A group of words that contains both a subject and a verb

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Iocaste and Laios were told by the oracle that_______________?

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Laios would be killed by his own son and Locaste would marry her own son

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What is a simple sentence?

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Contains one independent clause

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What is a free verse?

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No regular meter or rhyme

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What is alliteration?

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The repetition of initial consonant sounds

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As a result of hearing the prophecy, Iocaste and Laios try to avoid it by __________?

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Binding the baby’s ankles and having him left on a mountain to die

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Oedipus runs away from his adopted home when he hears a prophecy that ____________?

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He would marry his mother and kill his father

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25
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Who is Miss Stephanie Crawford?

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A gossipy neighbor who knows the family histories of the entire neighborhood

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What is anagnorisis?

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The hero’s recognition or epiphany of his situation/suffering

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27
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Who is Jem?

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Scout’s older brother

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What is an episode?

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Scene that includes dialogue

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29
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Oedipus killed Laios because Laios ___________?

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Insulted Oedipus’s pride

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30
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When Iocaste learns the truth about Oedipus and her marriage to him, she ____________?

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Kills herself

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Who is Scout?

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Atticus’s young daughter; narrator

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What is a complex sentence?

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A sentence that contains one independent clause and at least one dependant clause

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What is a fused sentence?

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Two sentences that are incorrectly joined without any punctuation

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34
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What is a comma splice?

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Two sentences incorrectly joined by only a comma

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35
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What are the four types of bells is Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Bells”?

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Silver, Golden, alarm, and funeral

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36
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Who is Dill?

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Scout’s “fiancé”; visits every summer

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37
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What is a limerick?

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An amusing five line poem with an anapestic meters

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What is a meter?

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The regular arrangement of stressed and unstressed symbols in a line of poetry

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What is a rhyme scheme?

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The pattern of rhyming sounds

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40
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What is personification?

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Giving human characteristics to things not human

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What is a noun clause?

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Function as a noun would; most begin with the word that; some are introduced by indefinite relative pronouns

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What is a compound sentence?

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Contains two or more independent clauses

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43
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What is exodos?

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Final scene, no choral ode follows

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44
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What is parados?

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The point at which the course enters

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45
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What is hubris?

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Excessive pride

46
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What is moira?

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Fate

47
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What is the mood of the poem “Foul Shot”?

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Suspense and action

48
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When Oedipus learns he has fulfilled the prophecy the oracle spoke, he________________?

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Gouges out his eyes

49
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What type of people made up the chorus in Antigone?

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Wise old men

50
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What is an adverb clause?

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A clause that describes or modifies a verb in another clause; introduced by relative pronouns or relative adverbs

51
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Who is Tom Robinson?

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A hard working young Negro who gets accused of a crime he did not commit against Mayella Ewell

52
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What is a stasimon?

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Also called an ode; choral reading/chant by chorus

53
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What is onomatopoeia?

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Words that sound like what they mean

54
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What is a metaphor?

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A comparison that does not use like or as

55
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What is a ballad?

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A narrative poem written in four line stanzas

56
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What is antistrophe?

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Indicates left to right movement of chorus

57
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What is a stanza?

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A division of a poem based on thought, meter, or rhyme

58
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Who is Aunt Alexandra?

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The very “proper” aunt who come to stay with the Finches

59
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Who is Eurdydice?

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Creon’s wife

60
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Who is the blind prophet who comes to speak to King Creon?

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Teiresias

61
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How are Antigone and Ismene related?

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They are sisters

62
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What is consonance?

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The repetition of consonant sounds not at the beginning of words

63
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What is blank verse?

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

64
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Who is Mr. Walter Cunningham?

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An upright farmer who refuses to accept charity

65
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How did Creon get to be king?

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The former king was his brother-in-law who sons who died in battle

66
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What are the repetitions of feet?

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Monometer, Dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, and octameter

67
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What is heroic couplets?

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Iambic pentameter

68
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What is a rhymed verse?

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End rhyme and regular meter

69
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What is King Creon’s decree?

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Eteocles is to be buried with honors and Polyneices is left for the birds

70
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What is the punishment Creon intends for anyone who disobeys his decree?

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Stoning

71
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What is peripeteia?

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Reversal/change in fortune for the hero

72
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What is catharsis?

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Audience is released from the pity and fear evoked by the play

73
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What is tenor?

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Idea being expressed or the subject of comparison

74
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What is sonnet? Describe the English sonnet and the Italian sonnet.

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A 14 line poem; English has 3 quatrains and a couplet; Italian has an octave and a setet

75
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What is a stichomythia?

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Fast paced, alternating, one-line dialogue between two characters

76
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Who is Mr. Underwood?

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Owner of the town newspaper

77
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Who is Miss Caroline Fisher?

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One of Scout’s teachers

78
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What is an assonance?

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The repetition of stressed vowel sounds

79
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What is a simile?

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A comparison using like or as

80
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What reason does Antigone give for defying Creon decree?

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The gods’ laws demand burial, and they are more important than mans’ laws

81
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Who is Mayella Violet Ewell?

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Bob Ewell’s daughter; accuses Tom of rape

82
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Who is Calpurnia?

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The Negro housekeeper who has raised Jem and Scout

83
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Who is Judge John Taylor?

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The presiding judge at trial

84
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What is Ismene’s decision regarding the king’s decree?

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She’s afraid to go against the king, so she refuses help her sister

85
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What news does the the sentry bring to Creon?

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Someone has gone against the king’s decree and buried the body

86
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Who is Heck Tate?

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The sheriff who is also a good friend of Atticus

87
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Who is Mr. Link Deas?

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Tom Robinson’s boss; kind to Helen Robinson

88
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What are three characteristics of a crystal stair?

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Clear, sparkly, and smooth

89
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How does Creon believe the act of burying the body was carried out?

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The sentries had been bribed by the king’s enemies to bury the body

90
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How did the guards manage to capture Antigone?

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They removed the dirt from the body and saw her covering it with dirt again

91
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Who is Miss Rachel Haverford?

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Dill’s aunt who lives next door to the Finches

92
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What is a synecdoche?

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Using a part of something to stand for the whole

93
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What does Haimon tell King Creon about the people of Thebes’ allegiance to him?

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He says that the people fear Creon and talk about the respect for Antigone behind his back

94
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How does the city feel about Antigone’s crime?

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They do not view it as a crime, but as a loving sister caring for her dead brother

95
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Describe the death sentence Creon chooses for Antigone.

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She will be shut in a stone tomb with a little food and water and left to die

96
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Who is Uncle Jack Finch?

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The bachelor uncle who visits every Christmas

97
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Who is Miss Maudie Atkinson?

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Another neighbor; kind, open-minded

98
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What is a vehicle?

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The image which conveys or carries the idea of the comparison

99
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Whom does Antigone blame for her terrible misfortune?

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The curse on the house of Oedipus

100
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What does the prophet claim can be the cause of the gods’ negative reaction to their sacrifices and offerings?

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They are angry regarding Creon’s treatment of Polyneices and Antigone

101
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What does the prophet claim can be done to repair the evil preformed against the gods?

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Creon should admit his errors and put them right

102
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What warning does Teiresias’ give to king Creon if he refuses to heed the prophecies?

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The king will lose what is dear to him in repayment to the gods

103
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Who is Mr. Nathan Radley?

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The stern, distant brother of Boo

104
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What is King Creon’s FIRST reaction to Teiresias’ message?

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He angrily refuses to yield

105
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Where does the poem “The Base Stealer” talk about?

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Baseball and a runner stealing a base

106
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What did Creon see when he looked into Antigone’s tomb?

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Antigone’s body hanging from the ceiling by her own veil and Haimon clinging to the dead body of Antigone and weeping over her

107
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What was Haimon’s first reaction when Creon entered Antigone’s tomb?

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He attacked her

108
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Who is Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose?

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A vicious lady down the street; Jem reads to her

109
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What happened when the messenger relayed the news about Haimon and Antigone to Eurydice?

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She killed herself

110
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Who is Reverend Sykes?

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A Negro minister who watches the children during the trial

111
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Who is Dolphus Raymond?

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A white man who prefers living with Negros

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