Read the excerpt below from the play Antigone by Sophocles and answer the question that follows. CREON:I swear to you on oath—unless you findthe one whose hands really buried him,unless you bring him here before my eyes,then death for you will never be enough. Sophocles uses which literary device in these lines to keep the audience interested?

Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows or suspects something that a character does not. Creon demands that the person who buried the body be found, while the audience knows that Antigone buried it. That gap in knowledge creates suspense and keeps the audience interested. The lines are threatening, not humorous or joyful, and they do not develop an extended metaphor.

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