Answer: figurative language
Explanation:
Sophocles is using figurative language as the literary device while Creon is speaking to Ismene because in that conversation Creon is gently alluding to the ones that are trying to hurt him and stole his throne while he was good to them.
That is why he is saying ''I was nurturing two pests who aimed to rise against my throne''. He is talking to Ismene and telling her that she is a snake and that she is sucking the blood out of his life secretly which is showing how she was trying to get him into the trouble behind his back.
The tense of the verb had been writing as
used in the sentence above is in: D. <span><span>past
perfect progressive. This type of tense denotes that there is continuity
of the action that was already completed at a point in the past. This form contains
the modal “had” with an aid of “been” and a present participle of the verb
which ends with –ing.</span></span>
The Smith Act allowed deportation of an alien who had been "at any time" since arriving in the U.S. a member of, or affiliated with, such an organization. A second round of deportation hearings ended after ten weeks in June 1941.
