Quizlet Eng 2 Antigone Vocab

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  1. anarchist: Vocabulary word meaning person who is against governments
  2. blasphemy: Vocabulary word meaning disrspectful action
  3. catharsis: The end of a tragedy that makes the audience feel better
  4. climax: The turning point of the play
  5. deference: Vocabulary word meaning yielding in thought
  6. dialogue: On-stage conversation between two or more characters
  7. Dionysus: Plays were staged in his honour
  8. ethics: The theme of Antigone is morality versus
  9. hillside: Greek theaters were carved into this
  10. irony: The blind man is the only one who can see-- this is an example of___
  11. Lamentation: Vocabulary word meaning grief or weeping
  12. monologue: A single actor speaking on stage
  13. narrator: The element that narrative has that drama does not
  14. parados: Opening chorus speech for exposition purposes
  15. protagonist: Main character of play
  16. Resolution: Part of the play that works things out
  17. sated: Vocabulary word meaning satisfied
  18. sealed: Antigone's fate of cave
  19. Sophocles: Playright of Antigone
  20. suicide: Eurydice does this with a knife
  21. sword: Haimon used this to die
  22. unities: Aristoletean concept that a play must take place with the time, place, and action presented on stage
  23. zero: Number of women who performed in the first production of Antigone