Literary Devices
The two characters in the play that are FOIL to each other.
Who is Antigone and Ismene?
The reason Antigone feels a duty to bury Polyneices.
What is devotion to family?
Choragos role in Greek tragedy.
Who comments on the action and events in a play without participating in the play?
The reason Antigone is caught burying Polyneices.
Why does Antigone re-bury the body after guards remove the dust from the body?
This quote is an example of this literary device centralizing repetition“Is brazen boasting of barefaced anarchy!”.
What is alliteration?
The literary device used when Antigone describes the vault as her “Bridal bed”.
What is a metaphor?
The reason Creon doesn’t listen to Teiresias.
What is Creon’s arrogance?
Tragedy
What is a type of drama, where characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the worse.
The reason the argument between Creon and Haimon ends and Haimon leaves Creon.
Why is Creon threatening with killing Antigone in front of Haimon?
This literary device is used in the comparison between Polyneices and a Dragon “Rose like a dragon behind him, shouting war.”.
What is simile?
This literary device is shown through Antigone's unsuccessful attempt to bury her brother and afterwards faces death in the vault meant to be her tomb.
What is irony?
Antigone and Creon represent these different laws.
Why is Antigone: Natural/The Gods law and Creon: Human-made/Government law?
A weakness or limitation of character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero.
What is a tragic flaw?
The reason that at the end of the play a resolution to the conflict is found.
What is the death of Antigone, Haimon and Eurydice?
The literary device used in this comparison “There was Antigone! A mother bird come back to a stripped nest, heard her crying bitterly a broken note or two”.
What is a metaphor?
The literary device used when Creon speaks in ignorance and says “And the man who dared do this?”, when it was actually Antigone, a woman.
What is dramatic irony?
The cause of Creon’s tragedy and death of Eurydice, Haimon and Antigone.
What is Creon’s own ego and pride?
Always a present aspect of Greek tragedy stimulating the audience to feel pity for a character.
What is pathos?
The meaning of “double insolence” when Creon said “This girl is guilty of a double insolence”.
Why did Antigone disobey Creon's decree about Polynices's burial and challenge his power as king?
What self contradictory literary device is this quote an example of “King, was strong, But all your strength is weakness itself.”
What is a paradox?
The lit device that through the prologue sets up the situation and necessary background information introducing the conflict.
What is exposition?
Ismene and Antigone shows these kinds of different femininity.
Why does Ismene show "traditional femininity" and Antigone femininity through courage?
A term that means “a god from the machine” and refers to the use of artificial means to resolve the plot of a play.
What is deus ex machina?
The reason Creon believes that imprisoning Antigone in the vault will "Absolve the State of her death."
What is Creon believe that by not killing Antigone directly, he hasn't done anything wrong?
The warning that Teiresias gave to Creon, foreshadowing his future through birds.
What is the birds fighting, symbolizing the chaos that Creon has created?