Question

Read the excerpt below from the play Antigone by Sophocles and answer the question that follows.   Guard: That’s when we saw the girl. She was shrieking— a distressing painful cry, just like a bird who’s seen an empty nest, its fledglings gone.   Which mood is created by the figurative language used in the passage? compassionate hateful distrustful joyful

Answer 1

Compassionate mood is the mood that is created by the figurative language used in the passage.

Antigone is a tragedy by Sophocles written in or before 441 BC. It is the third of the three Theban plays but was the first written, chronologically.