Antigone: A Greek Tragedy

"I have no strength to break the laws that were made for the public good." Who said this?

• Antigone

• Isemene

• Teiresias

• Creon

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The Chorus represents the voice of

• The aristocracy

• Greek gods and goddesses

• the common people

• the protagonist

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The play begins with

• the exodus

• an ode

• the prologue

• the climax

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When Creon refers to himself as the "ship of state," he is making a sailing comparison that is a...

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• idiomatic expression

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Creon says, "And the man who dared do this?"

This is an example of...

• hyperbole and simile

• hyperbole and metaphor

• verbal and situational irony

• verbal and dramatic irony

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When Creon learns that Polyneices has been "buried," he responds to the sentry with...

• gratitude

• denial

• rage

• acceptance

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Not only does Creon arrest Antigone, but he also arrests...

• Teiresias

• Sentry

• Choragos

• Ismene

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"Then I beg you kill me. This talking is a great weariness: you words are distasteful to me." Who says this?

• Antigone

• Haimon

• Teirsias

• Ismene

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"In flood time you can see how some trees bend. And because they bend, even their twigs are safe." Select three.

• Haimon makes this comparison so that his father will "bend" to reason.

• In this comparison Haimon is "the twig"

• Haimon uses an analogy to make his argument

• Haimon compares his father to a flood

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Creon decides to ...

• have his sentry run a sword through Antigone and Ismene

• have Atingone stoned to death

• lock Antigone living in a vault of stone

• feed Antigone to wild dogs like her brother

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