Antigone Vocabulary Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| 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 |
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