summary with lit techniques:

Oedipus is standing in a hall where an altar is.
People are in the hall praying at the altar because a plague has reached Thebes.
The people are praising the king and asking him for help.
The king wants to help his people and is waiting for a message of what to do.
The messenger arrives.
The messenger tells the king that the gods are angry at a murder of the previous king.
The king asks who and where they are and learns it is in his own kingdom.
A group of bandits murdered the previous king.
Oedipus begins to make preperations to try to catch this murderer.
The chorus comes in and begins to talk about the gods.
Chorus continues to explain the conditions of Thebes.
Chorus asks for help from multiple gods.
Oedipus wishes to grant the peoples wishes with the help from the gods.


Lit techniques: I really havent found all that many some imagery, and then some alliteration, i suppose there is plenty of allusion to greek mythology, but after all it is a greek play.