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Sophocles uses the word �wonderful� to describe how great man and his accomplishments are. When sophocles talks about man sailing the sea, he says that the sea �yields� to his prows, the word �yield� seems to make man seem more powerful than the sea and the �huge � crests that bear man up, make man seem almost like a god, idolized and held up high. This is also foreshadowing that even though man is lifted high for the moment, he will come crashing down. Sophocles uses the word �stallions� instead of mules or horses. This gives the impression that humans are so great that they farm with stallions which are more magnificent that horses or mules. �light boned� describes just how light the birds seem to be. The �lithe� fish also describes how smooth and slick the fish are. Describing a horse as �windy-maned� makes it seem very wild, yet the humans can even tame these creatures. The way sophocles uses �arrows� and �spears� to describe snow and rain, seems also to heighten the image that humans are so powerful that they can stop this. |
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