What are examples of figurative language in 'Antigone'?

Answer 1

Apostrophe, metaphor, personification, simile and synecdoche are examples of figurative language in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, an apostrophe addresses the absent, dead or non-human as though they are alive and present, as in the chorus addressing the parados to "Beam of the sun." A metaphorcompares unlike things, such as Creon's phrasing "the vessel of our State" in the first scene. Personification gives human qualities to animals, ideas or objects, as in the chorus leader's singing of "spears athirst for blood" in the parados. Simile likens through the use of "as," "like" or "than," as in the chorus leader's singings of Polyneices' attacking "like shrill-screaming eagle" in the parados. Synedoche mentions a part in representation of the whole, as in the chorus leader's singing of the "boasts of a proud tongue" in the parados.