oedipus rex

A person portrayed in a novel, short story, or play.

• Song
• Character
• Diction
• Voice

The opposite of what was planned or hoped to happen takes place

• Peripetia
• A surprise
• Anagnorosis
• Episode

The opening scene, in which the background of the story is established, usually by a single actor or in a dialogue between two actors

• Stasimon
• Prologue
• Exodus
• Parados

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The entrance of the chorus, usually chanting a lyric which bears some relation to the main theme of the play

• Hamartia
• Verbal Sparring
• Hubris
• Parados

Chorus

• The group who yells at characters
• The group that plays music 
• The group responsible for filling in the gaps in the play
• The choir director

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Oedipus travels into Thebes and is crowned King because______________.  

• a. Jocasta falls in love with him and she is a widow
• b. He gets rid of the plague
•  c. He delivers Thebes from the Sphinx

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Apollo sent the plague because ________ .    

• a. King Lauis and Queen Jocasta killed their child
• b. the murderer of Laius lives
•  c. Jocasta remarried so soon after her husband's death

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Oedipus sends for Teiresias who reveals that Oedipus is the cause of the plague. The ___________ is that Tiresias is blind but can see the truth, and Oedipus has sight but refuses to see the truth.  

•  a.tragedy
•  b. hubris
•  c. irony
• d.  catharsis

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