Identify two instances of figurative language from the fourth stasimon of "oedipus the king" and explain what they mean and why they are significant.

The dominant metaphors are light vs. darkness, and sight vs. blindness.  A reference to this metaphor occurs early in the play, when Oedipus falsely accuses Tiresias and Creon of conspiracy. Tiresias responds by using the same metaphor. Though at this point the reader cannot be sure which character is right, eventually Tiresias comes out the winner.  This is revealed as Oedipus learns his tragic fate. This causes the king to gouge out his eyes, which have been blind to the truth for so long. The idea of sight is critical in Oedipus the King.  Though Tiresias is physically blind, he sees the truth from the beginning, while Oedipus, who has physical eyesight, is blind to his fate.  By the end, Oedipus makes his eyes blind when he learns the truth and finally sees.

There are several similes and metaphors, types of figurative language, in Oedipus Rex. For example, in line 75, Oedipus says, "You have not roused me like a man from sleep" to the children gathered around him. In this example, Oedipus says that he is wide awake and compares himself to someone who has not just been awakened. In line 182, Oedipus says, "I am stretched on the rack of doubt." This is a kind of metaphor in which Oedipus compares himself to someone who is stretched on a rack, but the rack is not a physical rack but an emotional rack made of self-doubt. In line 200-203, the Chorus says, "You may see them one with another, like birds swift on the wing, quicker than fire unmastered, speeding away to the coast of the Western God." In this simile, the women of Thebes are compared to fast birds who fly away, faster than a raging fire, to the land of Death. The coast of the Western God stands for the realm of the God of Death. This simile means that the women of the city are perishing.

When Charles John Davids proposed to Madison Al Newert 3/4/1884 somewhere in Africa.
And when Jesus Christ said good morrow to James Heartyfult 19/6/2004. 
Just off the top of my head.

The dominant metaphors are light vs. darkness, and sight vs. blindness.  A reference to this metaphor occurs early in the play, when Oedipus falsely accuses Tiresias and Creon of conspiracy. Tiresias responds by using the same metaphor. Though at this point the reader cannot be sure which character is right, eventually Tiresias comes out the winner.  This is revealed as Oedipus learns his tragic fate. This causes the king to gouge out his eyes, which have been blind to the truth for so long. The idea of sight is critical in Oedipus the King.  Though Tiresias is physically blind, he sees the truth from the beginning, while Oedipus, who has physical eyesight, is blind to his fate.  By the end, Oedipus makes his eyes blind when he learns the truth and finally sees.