13 Vocabulary 4 VOCABULARY FOR SCENE 4 AND ODE 4 - Antigone Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues   Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean on the lines provided. 1.  “How often have I heard the story of Niobe,/Tantalos’ wretched daughter, how the stone/Clung fast about her, ivy-close . . .”        ______________________________________________________________________________ 2.   “I have been a stranger here in my own land:/All my life/The blasphemy of my birth has followed me.” ______________________________________________________________________________ 3.   “Lead me to my vigil, where I must have/Neither love nor lamentation, no song, but silence.” ______________________________________________________________________________ 4.   “If dirges and planned lamentations could put off death,/Men would be singing forever.” _____________________________________________________________________________ 5.  “O passionate heart,/Unyielding, tormented still by the same winds!” ______________________________________________________________________________ 6.  “You will remember/What things I suffer, and at what men’s hands,/Because I would not  transgress the laws of heaven.” ______________________________________________________________________________ 7.  “All Danae’s beauty was locked away/In a brazen cell where the sunlight could not come . . .” _____________________________________________________________________________ 8.  “No power in wealth or war/Or tough sea-blackened ships/Can prevail against untiring Destiny!” _____________________________________________________________________________ Antigone Vocabulary Worksheet Scene 4 and Ode 4 Continued   9.  “. . . he had profaned the revels,/And fired the wrath of the nine/Implacable Sisters that love the sound of the flute.” _____________________________________________________________________________ 10.  “Her father was the god of the North Wind/And she was cradled by gales...” _____________________________________________________________________________ Part II: Determining the Meaning Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions ___   1.  wretched         A.  a cry of sorrow and grief ___   2.  blasphemy       B.  made of brass ___   3.  lamentation      C.  caused great physical pain or mental anguish ___   4.  dirges               D.  very strong winds ___   5.  tormented         E.   impossible to placate or appease ___   6.  transgress         F.  a profane act, utterance, or writing concerning God ___   7.  brazen               G.  funeral hymns ___   8.  prevail               H.  to be greater in strength or influence; triumph ___   9.  implacable         I.   to commit an offense by violating a law or command; sin ___ 10.  gales                 J.   in a deplorable state of distress or misfortune; miserable