Oedipus Rex Jeopardy
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©Norman Herr, 2003
A-100
• ANSWER: type of outside theater Greeks used
• QUESTION: What is an amphitheater?
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A-200
• ANSWER: Name of the rows chorus used
to enter
• QUESTION: What is the parados?
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A-300
• ANSWER: the “seeing place”
• QUESTION: What is the theatron?
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A-400
• ANSWER: the place for the chorus, the
“dancing place”
• QUESTION: What is the orchestra?
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A-500
• ANSWER: the 5 distinct segments of a
drama
• QUESTION: What are the Prologue,
Parados, Scenes, Odes, and Exodus?
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B-100
• ANSWER: the cause of a hero’s downfall
• QUESTION: What is a tragic flaw?
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B-200
• ANSWER: Ex. “By avenging the
murdered king I protect myself”
• QUESTION: What is dramatic irony?
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B-300
• ANSWER: name for king who earns
right, but not by birth
• QUESTION: What is Tyrannos?
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B-400
• ANSWER: known as the reversal in plot
• QUESTION: What is peripeteia?
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B-500
• ANSWER: the recognition in plot
• QUESTION: What is anagnorisis?
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C-100
• ANSWER: first character that spoke in
play
• QUESTION: Who is Oedipus?
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C-200
• ANSWER: mother of Oedipus
• QUESTION: Who is Iocaste?
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C-300
• ANSWER: insulted Oedipus where 3
roads met and hit him with a goad
• QUESTION: Who is King Laius?
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C-400
• ANSWER: the God that Creon wanted
to consult in Delphi, Iocaste makes
offering to him later as well
• QUESTION: Who is Apollo?
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C-500
• ANSWER: two daughters of Oedipus
• QUESTION: Who are Ismene and
Antigone?
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D-100
• ANSWER: Ex. “Even if he's caught in
my own house: may the curse I
pronounced on him strike me."
• QUESTION: What is irony?
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D-200
• ANSWER: a play on ideas, seemingly
contradicting
• QUESTION: What is a paradox?
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D-300
• ANSWER: used as a symbol, the looming
image where Oedipus was left to die
• QUESTION: What is Mount Kitharion?
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D-400
• ANSWER: parallel dialogue, heightens
tension
• QUESTION: What is stichomythia?
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D-500
• ANSWER: although Teiresias is blind, he
can see the truth (identify type)
• QUESTION: What is situational irony?
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E-100
• ANSWER: held annual festival in honor
or him, God of Wine and Fertility
• QUESTION: Who is Dionysus?
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E-200
• ANSWER: the adoptive parents of
Oedipus
• QUESTION: Who are King Polybus and
Queen Merope?
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E-300
• ANSWER: coined the term archetype
• QUESTION: Who is Carl Jung?
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E-400
• ANSWER: given credit for actors
speaking rather than singing
• QUESTION: Who is Thespis?
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E-500
• ANSWER: means cleansing or emotional
purging
• QUESTION: What is catharsis?
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FINAL JEOPARDY
• ANSWER: the 2 parts of the Ode
• QUESTION: What are the strophe and
antistrophe?
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