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Read the following line from "The Olympic Swimmer." "Like fish at play in Neptune's sea" The reference to Neptune in this line is most likely intended a…

Read the following line from "The Olympic Swimmer." "Like fish at play in Neptune's sea" The reference to Neptune in this line is most likely intended a…
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Read the following line from "The Olympic Swimmer." "Like fish at play in Neptune's sea" The reference to Neptune in this line is most likely intended as a(n) ________ allusion.

a. biblical
b. literary
c. historical
d. mythological

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It is a mythological allusion because its meaning is that of Neptune, the Roman God of the seas. Neptune is the Roman counterpart of the Greek God Poseidon.
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