Lit Devices
Personification: "Have you ever thought about how beautiful a garden is when it is not yet thinking of men?"
The use of figurative language expresses the deep contemplation Antigone is feeling, since she is accepting the fact that she is going to die. She is thinking about how beautiful the world is since she won't be living in it much longer. The language expresses regret and sorrow towards her fate.
Simile: "watching over them like a mother hen"
Not only does this express the care the nurse shows for the two girls, whom she loves dearly and will have some effect on the story when Antigone has to die, but it dates the play. Such an expression wasn't used by the ancient Greeks back in the day, so it presents a more modern version in which the interpreter must choose an appropriate replacement to make it connect to the audience.
Imagery: "cold, black, beautiful, flowing water."
the lovely imagery of the water, expressed as so beautiful and pure, isn't allowed into the palace because it doesn't belong there, even if it's beautiful. Antigone is the water that is beautiful water that goes where it pleases, and it conflicts with the palace. Antigone is saying how she is destined to die because she doesn't fit in in the palace, so she willingly accepts her fate, but her sister belongs in this setting.
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