You there—you snake lurking in my house, sucking out my life’s blood so secretly. I’d no idea I was nurturing two pests, who aimed to rise against my throne.
Creon speaks these lines to Ismene. Which literary device does Sophocles use in this passage?
The correct answer should be a metaphor. He's not really talking to a snake, but rather to Ismene, who he believes is behaving like a snake. Therefore, this is a metaphor.
