Answer: d) Antigone’s status as one of the last surviving women in the house of Oedipus helps motivate her in the play.
Explanation:
Antigone's brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, fought for the throne of Thebes and both died in the conflict. The new king Creon, honors Eteocles by burying him but leaves Polynices on the field to disgrace him.
Antigone vows to bury her brother Polynices in defiance of the law by Creon and draws her motivation to do so from her status as one of the last surviving women in the House of Oedipus.
Figurative language refers to the use of words in a way that deviates from traditional meaning in order to convey a complicated meaning, colorful writing, clarity, or evocative comparison. It uses an ordinary sentence to refer to something without directly stating it.
Alliteration: the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Example: Three grey geese in a field grazing. Grey were the geese and green was the grazing.
Onomatopoeia: the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
Example: The bridge collapsed creating a tremendous boom.
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Example: He's running faster than the wind.
