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Antigone Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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anarchist | a person who rebels against any authority, established order, or ruling power |
impassively | showing no sign of feeling or emotion |
insolence | rude and disrespectful behavior |
lamentation | the expression of grief or sorrow |
auspcious | conducive to success |
contempt | the feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn |
defile | to make unclean or impure |
perverse | a person whose actions show the desire to behave in an unreasonable or unacceptable way |
revernce | deep respect for someone or something |
sate | to fully satisfy a desire |
sententious | stuck up |
transgression | an act that goes against a law, rule, or code of conduct |
prologue | a song sung by a Greek chorus as they enter |
ode | elaborate lyrical poetry made up of a strophe, antistrophe, and an epode |
strophe | (lit. "a turning") |
antistrophe | answers the strope |
harmatia | a tragic flaw leading to a downfall |
huberis | excessive pride leading to a downfall |
epode | concludes the ode |
paean | a song of praise |
exodos | the exit scence of a Greek drama |
anagnorisis | a moment when a character makes a recognition or discovery of truth |
catharsis | a release of emotional tension |
deus ex machina | (lit. a god from a machine) a sudden solution to an impossible situation |
peripeteia | a sudden change in fortune or circumstances |