Read these lines from Antigone. ANTIGONE: Ismene, dear sister, You would think that we had already suffered enough For the curse on Oedipus: I cannot imagine any grief That you and I have not gone through. What helps Antigone make the dangerous decision to bury her brother, despite the known consequences? Antigone, as a strong woman, wants to undermine Creon's male authority. Antigone believes that she is doomed, due to her father's sin, and accepts it wholeheartedly. Antigone cannot imagine that her own death could be worse than the death of Oedipus. Antigone wants to teach Ismene a lesson for being so weak-willed and knows that Ismene would be hurt by Antigone's death.

Read the excerpt and answer the question. the boards themselves seemed to remain upright not from being nailed together but rather from leaning together, like a house that a child might have constructed from cards. what best describes the figurative language in the sentence above? idiom simile onomatopoeia personification

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

Compare and contrast the merits and drawbacks of at least two of the scholarly approaches to literature described in this unit. be sure to mention at least one advantage that each approach has over the other. use one of the readings from this unit in your comparison. your answer should be at least 250 words.