Which statement describes a similarity between pieter brueghel's painting landscape with the fall of icarus and ovid's "the story of daedalus and icarus"? a. both include a reference to daedalus. b. both describe icarus drowning within sight of shore. c. both portray a farmer, a fisherman, and a shepherd. d. both show witnesses attempting to rescue icarus.

The correct answer is C. From Brueghel's painting (in the attached picture below) we can observe the central figures - fisherman, angler and ploughman.  The artwork is the reference to the following lines of Ovid's work:

Far off, far down, some fisherman is watching

As the rod dips and trembles over the water,

Some shepherd rests his weight upon his crook,

Some ploughman on the handles of his ploughshare,

It is the description of Icarus's fly over these central figures - busy with their work. Interestingly, in comparison with its original copy the painting doesn't include the flying of Icarus. However, we can observe the similarities of the figures.  

in ray bradbury's short story "a sound of thunder", mr. eckels's fearfulness leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.

in the story, mr. eckels, who is a hunter, hires a time travel company to travel to the age of dinosaurs. although he is excited for the hunting expedition at the beginning, when they reach there and mr. eckels sees the tyrannosaurus, he feels frightened. as he is afraid of the tyrannosaurus, he steps off the path although he has been warned not to do it. by stepping off the path, the entire course of the future is affected: mr. eckart alters the future by stepping on a butterfly, which causes a new man to be elected president in the future. in that way, it is mr. eckart's fearfulness what triggers 'the butterfly effect' and what leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.