Anouilh's Antigone Journal # 2

4 literary techniques and their effects

Metaphor
"Wasn't I a miserable little beast when we were small?"(10).
Antigone compares herself to a little beast a pest something that is small and annoying and this gives us insight into how she views herself.

Imagery
Creates the image of the guards being dumb brutal beast and down plays her respect for them and also the readers respect.
"[...]surrounded by guards with their idiot faces all bloated, their animal hands clean-washed for the sacrifice, their beefy eyes squinting as they stare at us"(12). The effect is that it creates an image of the guards as being dumb mindless obeident creature who obey Creon and it helps to create the idea that Creon is a tryant and the he controls everyone who follows him.

Foreshadowing
"But if there was a reaon why I couldn't go on taliking to her"(15).
Foreshadow the idea that Antigone already knows that she is going to die and it helps reveal that she is going to be caught and be punished to death.

Personification: "[...]that there is something inside you that si just-dying?"(18). Idea that Antigone is everything to Haemon and that this personification that her love is killing something inside of him shows how great it is.