"Men of Thebes, always first in honor", this passage uses imagery to allow the reader to picture men of great honor, maybe warriors or fighting men. Possibily a warring country/civilization.
"I tell you neither the waters of the Danube nor the Nile can wash this palace clean", this passage uses both imagery and allusions to connect with the reader. This imagery is used to have the readers picture such a mess that a great amount of water can't clean it. And the allusions to the Danube and the Nile are used to gives something to the readers to use as comparison and to assume the amount of water being talked about.
Sophocles also uses words that represent a harvest of some sort; "Your father killed his father, sowed his mother, / one, one and the selfsame womb sprang you - / he cropped the very roots of his existence". Using the connection to plants/harvesting, the imagery is much more indepth because fertilization in humans is easily connected with that of the earth. This passage makes for a good use of literary techniques throughout Sophocles' play.
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