14 Vocabulary 5 VOCABULARY FOR SCENE 5, PAEAN AND EXODOS - 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.  “Listen, Creon:/I was sitting in my chair of augury, at the place/Where the birds gather  around me.”        ______________________________________________________________________________ 2.  “. . . instead of bright flame,/There was only the sputtering slime of the fat thigh-  flesh/Melting; the entrails dissolved in gray smoke . . .” ______________________________________________________________________________ 3.   “I tell you, Creon, you yourself have brought/This new calamity upon us.” ______________________________________________________________________________ 4.   “Our hearths and altars/Are stained with the corruption of dogs and carrion birds/That glut themselves on the corpse of Oedipus’ son.” _____________________________________________________________________________ 5.   “To do what? –Come let’s have the aphorism!” ______________________________________________________________________________ 6.  “God moves/Swiftly to cancel the folly of stubborn men.” ______________________________________________________________________________ 7.   “The shadow of plague is upon us:/come with clement feet/oh come from Parnasos/down the long slopes/across the lamenting water.” _____________________________________________________________________________ 8.   “Men of the line of Kadmos, you who live/Near Amphion’s citadel; I cannot say/Of any condition of human life, ‘This is fixed,/This is clearly good, or bad’.” Antigone Vocabulary Worksheet Scene 5, Paean and Exodos Continued   9.  “Surely a god/Has crushed me beneath the hugest weight of heaven,/And driven me  headlong in a barbaric way/To trample out the thing I held most dear.” _____________________________________________________________________________ 10.  “And we bathed/The corpse with holy water, and we brought/Fresh-broken branches to burn  what was left of it,/And upon the urn we heaped up a towering barrow of earth of his own land.” _____________________________________________________________________________ Part II: Determining the Meaning Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions ___   1.  augury       A.  inclined to be lenient or merciful ___   2.  entrails       B.  an event that brings terrible loss; disaster ___   3.  calamity     C.  the internal organs, especially the intestines ___   4.  glut            D.  a tersely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage ___   5.  aphorism    E.  a large mound of earth or stones placed over a burial site ___   6.  folly           F.  the art, ability, or practice of divination or predictions ___   7.  clement       G.  without civilizing influences ___   8.  citadel         H.  a fortress in a commanding position in or near a city ___   9.  barbaric       I.   to fill beyond capacity, especially with food ___ 10.  barrow        J.   a lack of good sense, understanding, or foresight