Western literature week 13

Antigone
In Greek mythology, Antigone (/ænˈtɪɡəniː/ an-ti-gə-nee; Greek:Ἀντιγόνη) is the daughter/sister of Oedipus and his mother, Jocasta. The meaning of the name is, as in the case of the masculine equivalent Antigonus, "worthy of one's parents" or "in place of one's parents".

Sarcasm
sarcasm is the use of irony to mock or convey contempt.^[1] "The distinctive quality of sarcasm is present in the spoken word and manifested chiefly by vocal inflections".^[2] The sarcastic content of a statement will be dependent upon the context in which it appears.^[3]

Tragic Flaw

The Greek word for Tragic flaw is hamaratia or hamartanein that means “to err”. It was Aristotle who introduced this term first in his book the Poetics and his idea was that it is an “error of judgment” on the part of a hero that brings his downfall. A tragic flaw is also called a fatal flaw in literature and films. This is taken as a defective trait in the character of the hero.

Irony

irony (from Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία (eirōneía), meaning "dissimulation, feigned ignorance"^[1]), in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event in which what appears, on the surface, to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case. Irony may be divided into categories such as verbal, dramatic, andsituational.