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Examples Of Figurative Language In Antigone

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In the play Antigone, there was a character who was put in a unique situation. Haimen was the son of the newly crowned King Creon and was engaged to his own first cousin, Antigone. When Haimen is introduced into the play Creon thinks that Antigone should be put to death because she tried to bury her brother in order for him to rest in peace, but Haimen thinks otherwise. He uses various rhetorical devices to try and change his father’s ruling and get him on his side. Haimen enters and begins reasoning with his father, but Creon is not having it. Haimen uses different figurative language to really keep his father thinking along with the audience. An example of this which he used would be “In flood time you can see how some trees bend… while

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