Antigone Final Test Review
Drama Terms
1. Stage directions, acts and scenes can all be found in what kind of literature?
Plays/drama
2. What is indirect characterization?
Learning about a character through what others say about them, stage directions,
how they act, etc.
3. What is direct characterization?
Learning about a charter through what we know, or what they say
4. What is a monologue?
A speech made by one character that is addressed to other characters on stage
5. What is one example of a monologue from Antigone?
Creon’s ship of state speech
Questions about the play
6. Creon’s decree that Polyneices shall not be buried is
Rejected by Antigone as a violation of divine law
7. What fundamental principle does Antigone proclaim in her confrontation with Creon?
The Gods’ laws are more important that Man’s laws
8. What is the main cause of Creon’s refusal to pardon Antigone?
His Hubris/Pride
9. What image do Teiresias and Polyneices both share?
A bird
10. Antigone hopes that Creon will?
Receive a punishment equal to her own
11. The fact that Teiresias is blind yet has greater vision than those who are sighted is an
example of what term?
Ironic
12. How does Ismene serves as a foil to Antigone?
She believes Man’s laws are more important than Gods’ laws
13. Creon declares that anarchists are behind the burial of Polyneices. What dramatic irony
lies in the declaration?
The audience knows that Antigone is the one who buried the body and she is not
an anarchist.
14. List three things that Foreshadow Creon’s downfall.
The Gods’ intervention
Haimon’s warnings
Teiresias’ curse
15. Creon and Teiresias could be considered parallel characters because they have this in
common
blindness
16. What is the resolution of the play?
Creon realizes all the deaths are his fault
17. This character could be considered the antagonist in Antigone.
Antigone
18. What is the theme from Antigone:
Hubris leads to the downfall of men
19. Creon’s ship of state speech was an example of:
Extended metaphor
20. Antigone's father was
Oedipus
21. Antigone's two brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices,
Killed each other in a struggle for the throne of Thebes
22. Creon is
The new king of Thebes at the start of the play
23. The king of Thebes has declared that
Eteocles is to be given a funeral while Polynieces’ body will be left to rot
24. Which of these values does Creon praise in his initial speech to the Chorus?
Loyalty
25. The Chorus, on first hearing the Sentry's news, wonders if
The Gods buried Polynieces
26. Creon tells the Sentry that
He must find the culprit or face execution
27. What major principle does Antigone proclaim in her conflict with Creon?
Divine law (God) supersedes (is more important that) civil law (man)
28. What is Creon’s attitude toward Antigone?
He considers her inferior, weak, and already a dead woman
29. In Scene 4, Antigone sees her untimely death as a consequence of?
Her father’s curse
30. What is Creon’s motive for finally wishing to free Antigone and bury Polyneices?
He finally realizes he could lose his family and kingdom
31. Which of these is not a trait of a tragic hero?
Anything other than the traits we have in our notes!!  Like: Must have a conflict
32. What event in Antigone took place first?
The fight between the two sisters
33. Ismene pleads with Antigone not to defy Creon because she…
Fears challenging authority herself.
34. Which one of the following is a conflict in the play?
The laws of man vs. the laws of the Gods
35. What was Creon’s motivation for decreeing that Polyneices should go unburied?
He does not want to honor a traitor
36. Creon insists on executing Antigone because
He wants to make an example of her
37. Antigone wants to protect her brother’s body from__________birds.
Carrion
38. What transcends Antigone’s fear of death?
Her love of her brother and the Gods’ laws
39. Which of the following words best describes Creon’s character?
Hubris
40. Readers can sympathize with Antigone because of her
Struggle to do what she feels is right and her unfair death
41. Haimon believes that authority rests with the _____________.
People
42. Antigone might be considered a tragic character because
Her situation elicits sympathy from the reader
43. It is difficult to identify with the Choragos because he is
Not personally involved in the play’s conflict
44. Creon expects ____ from others, even though he is not willing to give it himself
Respect
45. What is the effect of Creon’s change of heart in Scene 5?
His downfall is more pitiable, because he repented in vain.
List the traits of a tragic hero on one side, and then put examples from the text showing why
Creon fits those traits.
Traits
Creon
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BORN INTO NOBILITY
RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR OWN FATE
ENDOWED WITH A TRAGIC FLAW
DOOMED TO MAKE A SERIOUS ERROR IN JUDGEMENT
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FALL FROM GREATNESS OR HIGH ESTEEM
REALIZE THEY HAVE MADE AN IRREVERSIBLE MISTAKE
FACES AND ACCEPTS DEATH WITH HONOR
MEETS A TRAGIC DEATH OR IS MAIMED EMOTIONALLY
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THE AUDIENCE IS AFFECTED BY PITY AND/OR FEAR