Antigone journal #1

3 literary techniques and their effect.

Metaphor: "he's flying headlong now the bridle of fate stampeding him with pain!"(65;124). Evokes the image and effect that fate is unstopable and builds to the common them about the role of fate in peoples lives.

Image: "his spears thirsting for the kill"(65;1340. The effect it creates is that killing is a nesseciatey it makes Polynices look like a brutal killer. It helps create this hate and distrust for Polynices because of the chorus' view of him.

Dramatic Irony: "These are the instigators, I'm convinced- they've perverated my gaurd, brived them to do their work"(73;332-334). This is dramtic irony because in Oedipus, Creon was being accussed of ploting against Oedipus and in this situation Creon is sure there is a faction against him and we know that this is not true but Creon is over reacting and this is the very thing he warned Oedipus about.