Literary devices - Antigone Examples

“There’s people on the street using guns and knives, taking drugs and each other’s lives.”

The other was able to lend not only his achievements, but also his support and ears.

She lowered her standards by raising her glass,
Her courage, her eyes and his hopes.

And Joshua, and all of Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had (Joshua 7:24).

“He pulled the blue plastic tarp off of him and folded it and carried it out to the grocery cart and packed it and came back with their plates and some cornmeal cakes in a plastic bag and a plastic bottle of syrup.”

“He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac.”

“I have found the warm caves in the woods,
filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves,
closets, silks, innumerable goods”

But O, what damned minutes tells he o’er
Who dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet strongly loves.

—Shakespeare, Othello 3.3

“…ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.”

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition! — William Shakespeare, King John, II, i

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way… “

What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

The love of wicked men converts to fear,
That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both
To worthy danger and deserved death.

—Shakespeare, Richard II 5.1.66-68

“Having power makes [totalitarian leadership] isolated; isolation breeds insecurity; insecurity breeds suspicion and fear; suspicion and fear breed violence.”

“The frog was a prince / The prince was a brick / The brick was an egg / The egg was a bird”

“Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

“Much to learn you still have.”

“Mind what you have learned. Save you it can.”

“Told you I did. Reckless is he. Now matters are worse.”

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child.

… this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Where affections bear rule, their reason is subdued, honesty is subdued, good will is subdued, and all things else that withstand evil, for ever are subdued.

“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.”

“Everybody doesn’t like something, but nobody doesn’t like Sara Lee.”

“The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.”

It isn’t very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain. —J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“There are a few Starbucks in America.”

Hitting that telephone pole certainly didn’t do your car any good.