Antigone Prereading

A play with a serious theme that ends unhappily usually due to a personality fault in the main character.

• Plot

• Tragedy

• hubris

• drama

Arrogance demonstrated by a character as a result of his or her pride

• foreshadow

• climax

• hubris

• catharsis

clues as to what will probably happen later in the play

• foreshadowing

• hindsight

• music

• denouement

the highest point of emotional tension or the turning point in the plot

• climax

• catharsis

• tragedy

• theme

the purification of a characters emotions and/or relief of emotional tension

• climax

• catharsis

• denouement

• tragedy

the resolution of the main conflict (not usually a happy ending for the main character)

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Denouement

• Foreshadow

the people in the play

• characters

• theme

• diction

• spectacle

the main idea or message as the central focus of a story

• climax

• catharsis

• theme

• tragedy

the words spoken or sung by the characters

• language/diction

• spectacle

• denouement

• hubris

the scenes, props, costumes, make-up, masks, etc

• music

• drama

• hubris

• spectacle