Name: _________________________
Literary Elements in Antigone
Sophocles uses much figurative language to explain and describe the actions and events in his play. Reference
the line numbers and interpret his figurative language!
Line Numbers
Metaphor/quote
Explanation/Comparison
269-271
The State … is everything to us, the ship
we all sail in. If she sinks, we all drown
State = ship.
Ship sinks = a state “sinking” into ruin,
destruction
441-445
Money!... the virus that infects mankind
with every sickness we have a name for,
no greater scourge than that.
Virus =
Sickness (from virus) =
644-647
716-723
1005
1110-1116
1186-1187
1270-1281
1534-1535
1609-1616
1990-1991
Find your own!
Antigone seeing her unburied brother = bird
seeing her eggs smashed or gone
Provide an example (with a quote) of the following from the play:
Verbal Irony:
Dramatic Irony:
Situational Irony:
Find an example (use a quote) of foreshadowing in the play:
Write Line 2030. This is an example of:
Who said this quote?
“Is there anyone more stupid than the stupid man who cannot see his own stupidity?” ___________________________
“You’ve no right to claim the honor for doing what you were afraid to do.” ___________________________
“Indiscipline, anarchy, disobedience, what greater scourge that that for humankind? ___________________________
“We have seen an old man, through suffering, become wise.” ___________________________
“My arguments are just. They stand upon my merits, not my age.” ___________________________