Antigone Study Guide 1
Answer the following questions about the introduction, prologue, and Scene One of Antigone.
Use this study guide to prepare for your first test over Antigone.
1. What word means “an act of beating back or driving away, as with force”? ______________________
2. What word means “intensely hungry”? ____________________________________________________
3. What word means “large in scope” or “complete”? __________________________________________
4. What word means “devoutly religious”? ___________________________________________________
5. Who wrote Antigone? ___________________________________________________________________
6. Where was Sophocles born? _____________________________________________________________
7. When did Sophocles beat Aeschylus in a drama competition? ________________________________
8. What is the literary term for the main character in a play or story? _____________________________
9. What is the literary term for the bad guy in a play or story? ___________________________________
10. What is the literary term for the struggle in a play or story? __________________________________
11. What is the first “song” of the Chorus? ____________________________________________________
12. Who wants his nephew’s body left to rot in a field? _________________________________________
13. Who was buried with military honors? ____________________________________________________
14. Who wants to bury her brother’s body? ___________________________________________________
15. Who is scared to bury her brother’s body? _________________________________________________
16. What word means “favorable” or “indicating good fortune”? ________________________________
17. What is another word for ships? __________________________________________________________
18. What word means “formed or shaped with a chisel”? _______________________________________
19. What word means “easily bent” or “flexible”? ______________________________________________
20. Whom does Antigone respect more: her uncle or the gods? __________________________________