Jeopardy Greek Theater Antigone Julius Caesar Literary Terms

Jeopardy Greek Theater Antigone Julius Caesar Literary Terms Important Quotes Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from Greek Theater What was the performing area for the Chorus in a Greek Theater called?

$100 Answer from Greek Theater Orchestra

$200 Question from Greek Theater Greek theater festivals honored what god(dess)?

$200 Answer from Greek Theater Dionysus

$300 Question from Greek Theater Tell me 2 facts about Sophocles.

$300 Answer from Greek Theater Answers will vary: Most famous Greek playwright, was a general, politician, and priest, wanted the audience to be cautious of pride and religious indifference, added third actor and increased size of Chorus

$400 Question from Greek Theater What is the function of the Chorus?

$400 Answer from Greek Theater Answers will vary: To sing and chant, to sum up the action of each scene, to say out loud what the audience should be thinking

$500 Question from Greek Theater What is the definition of a Greek Tragedy?

$500 Answer from Greek Theater A play about the development of a conflict that reaches a sorrowful conclusion

$100 Question from Antigone What is Creon’s greatest fear?

$100 Answer from Antigone Anarchy

$200 Question from Antigone What does Creon believe defines someone as a good ruler or strong leader?

$200 Answer from Antigone Following the orders of the current leader

$300 Question from Antigone How does Tiresias’ prediction in the play come true?

$300 Answer from Antigone, Haemon, and Euriclyea commit suicide.

$400 Question from Antigone What is Creon’s Tragic Flaw?

$400 Answer from Antigone Pride

$500 Question from Antigone What is one theme of Antigone?

$500 Answer from Antigone Answers will vary: Stubbornness and pride lead to downfall Religious laws are more important than civil laws A great leader should be able to admit when he is wrong

$100 Question from Julius Caesar What is one way Caesar reveals his tragic flaw may be to ignore warnings?

$100 Answer from Julius Caesar Answers will vary: Ignores the soothsayer Ignores Calpurnia’s dream Ignores Artemidorus

$200 Question from Julius Caesar Why does Caesar order Antony to touch Calpurnia in the Feast of Lupercal?

$200 Answer from Julius Caesar To help cure her infertility so that she can conceive a child

$300 Question from Julius Caesar Why does Antony show the crowd Caesar’s wounds?

$300 Answer from Julius Caesar To make the people angry at Brutus and Cassius

$400 Question from Julius Caesar What does Brutus say the conspirators must do for their plan to be successful?

$400 Answer from Julius Caesar Don’t kill Caesar “wrathfully” or with anger to maintain an honorable appearance

$500 Question from Julius Caesar What is Brutus’ tragic flaw?

$500 Answer from Julius Caesar He is easily persuaded (based on interactions with Cassius) Overconfident in his persuasive skills (leaves after speaking at Caesar’s funeral w/o hearing Antony speak)

$100 Question from Literary Terms Is the following quote a simile, metaphor, or personification? …let’s carve him as a dish fit for the gods, not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds

$100 Answer from Literary Terms Simile

$200 Question from Literary Terms How is foreshadowing used in Antigone?

$200 Answer from Literary Terms Haemon threatens to kill himself, Tiresias’ prophecy of a great “catastrophe”

$300 Question from Literary Terms How is dramatic irony seen in Antigone?

$300 Answer from Literary Terms Creon doesn’t initially know who buried Polyneices

$400 Question from Literary Terms Is the following quote an example of a simile, metaphor, or personification? “Nature might stand up and say to all the world, “This was a man!”

$400 Answer from Literary Terms Personification

$500 Question from Literary Terms Cassius reveals his plan to write forged letters to Brutus while alone on stage, or during a ______.

$500 Answer from Literary Terms Soliloquy

$100 Question from Quotes Who says, “But I am constant as the Northern Star”

$100 Answer from Quotes Julius Caesar

$200 Question from Quotes Who says “Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers”?

$200 Answer from Quotes Brutus

$300 Question from Quotes Who says, “What should be in that ‘Caesar’? Why should that name be sounded more than yours? ”

$300 Answer from Quotes Cassius

$400 Question from Quotes What does the following quote reveal about Creon? “My voice is the one voice giving orders in this city!”

$400 Answer from Quotes He is a very proud person and does not like to ask others for help

$500 Question from Quotes What does this quote by Casca reveal? “His [Brutus’] countenance, like richest alchemy / Will change to virtue and to worthiness”

$500 Answer from Quotes Brutus will make their plan seem honorable and virtuous.

Final Jeopardy What similarities do the plays Antigone and Julius Caesar have in regards to theme or character traits.

Final Jeopardy Answers will vary: Both have characters that let pride determine their decisions, showing how pride can lead to downfall.

1. Mottled 2. Recumbent 3. Stilted 4. Morosely 5. Brusquely 6. Belligerent 7. Dejected 8. Yammered 9. Scourges 10. Mollified 11. Pugnacious 12. Ominously 13. Derogatory 14. Bridled 15. Crestfallen 16. Sullen 17. Indignation 18. Aloof 19. Derision 20. Reverence