| Metaphor | ‘For carrion birds to find as they search for food’•Polyneices is the food for the bird(Prologue Line 22) |
| Metaphor | ‘Crime is holy’•Antigone is going against Creons law, therefore it isn’t holy at all(Prologue Line 56) |
| Verbal Irony | ‘Oh tell it! Tell everyone!’•Antigone is being sarcastic;she trust Ismene(Prologue Line 69) |
| Metaphor | ‘Long blade of the sun’•Sun compared to blade of knife to show it’s power(Parados Line 1) |
| Metaphor | ‘He the wild eagle screaming’•Attack with no mercy(Parados Line 10) |
| Apostrophe | ‘Open,unlidded/Eye of the golden day!’•Talking to the sun as of it a person(Parados Line 4-5) |
| Personification | ‘The famished spears came onward in the night'(Parados Line 15) |
| Simile | ‘Rose up like a dragon behind him, shouting war’•Comparing him to a dragon(Parados Line 20) |
| Repetition | ‘Seven captains at seven gates'(Parados Line 32) |
| Alliteration | ‘That bends the battle line and breaks it.’•Quickens the combat making the audience anxious for the outcome(Parados Line 34) |
| Metaphor | ‘Recent storms have threatened to destroy, has come safely to harbor at last’•Ship of state=Thebes Threatening Storms=War(Scene 1 Line 9-10) |
| Metaphor | ‘Our ship of state’•Ship is Thebes, Creons bringing it back to stability after Polyneices and Eteocles destroy it(Scene 1 Line 8) |
| Motif | ‘No one values friendship more highly then I'(Scene 1 Line 27-28) |
| Dramatic Irony | ‘And the man who dared to do this?’•Creons thinks it is a man but the audience is well aware of it being Antigone(Scene 1 Line 79) |
| Connotation | ‘The dearest profit is sometimes all too dear'(Scene 1 Line 128) |
| Metaphor | ‘Tamed in the net of his mind'(Ode 1 Line 9) |
| Imagery | ‘The sultry shoulders of the mountain bull'(Ode 1 Line 12) |
| Simile | ‘Words also, and thought as rapid as air'(Ode 1 Line 13) |
| Foreshadow | ‘When the laws are kept/When the laws are broken’•Antigone breaking Creon’s laws(Ode 1 Line 21-22) |
| Paradox | ‘Was strong,/But all your strength is weakness itself'(Scene 2 Line 59-60) |
| Dramatic Irony | ‘She has much to learn’•Creon wants Antigone to act one way when Creon is the opposite of it(Scene 2 Line 77) |
| Personification | ‘Lips not frozen shut with fear'(Scene 2 Line 100) |
| Sarcasm | ‘Ah the good fortune kings,/ Licensed to say and do whatever they please!'(Scene 2 Line 101-102) |
| Metaphor | ‘Those tears are sisterly;the cloud/That shadows her eyes rains down gentle sorrow’•Antigone is regretful for not helping Ismene and letting her carry the punishment alone(Scene 2 Line 122-123) |
| Imagery | ‘Those tears are sisterly;the cloud/That shadows her eyes rains down gentle sorrow'(Scene 2 Line 122-123) |
| Apostrophe | ‘O dearest Haemon, how your father wrongs you!’•Ismene talks to Haemon although he isn’t in the room with them(Scene 2 Line 157) |
| Metonymy | ‘That house is shaken’•Entire family closely related(Ode 2 Line 2) |
| Pathos | ‘For carrion birds to find as they search for food’•Antigone is appealing pity to try making Ismene feel bad(Prologue Line 22) |
| Anaphora | ‘When’re laws are/When the laws are’•Repetition or a word at the beginning of a phrase(Ode 1 Line 21-22) |
| Metaphor | ‘Open, unlidded / Eye of golden day!/ O marching light'(Parados Lines 3-4) |
| Epithet | ‘Open, unlidded/ Eye of golden day!'(Parados Line 3-4) |
| Alliteration | ‘…bray of bragging tongues..’•Repetition of B’s(Parados Line 22) |
| Personification | ‘Chariots sing for joy!'(Parados Line 40) |
| Metonymy | ‘Yielded their clanging arms to the god’•The clanging arms are their armor being offered the god of war who is Ares.(Parados Line 33) |
| Metaphor | ‘O marching light'(Parados Line 4) |
| Connotation | ‘Or pine fire took the garland of our towers'(Parados Line 17) |
| Idiom | ‘Ready to take hot iron in our hands.’•Accept the tortue |
| Anarchists | ‘Stiff-necked anarchists’•in charge person |
| Personification | ‘Money talks’•Money is getting to their heads |
| Idiom | ‘Putting their heads together’•Act us one |
| Euphemism | ‘Count a few coins to many.’•Take a bribe |
| Understatement | ‘How dreadful it is when the right judge judges the wrong!’•Making the wrong choice |
| Alliteration | ‘Sold your soul for some silver’ •Making money |
| Paradox | ‘A fortune won is often a misfortune’•Sentry bribed |
Antigone (Prologue-Sc.1) Lit.Terms
February 15, 2020