Please answer for Oedipus Rex All of the following quotes from the text are examples dramatic or situational irony, except...

Select one:
a. “Let me clasp you with these hands, a brother’s hands, a father’s; hands that made dull sockets of these once bright eyes; hand of a man who blindly, recklessly, became your sire by her from whom he sprang.”
b. “Your cradle was your marriage bed; one chamber sufficed for son and sire.”
c. “Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist & cloud.”
d. “And yet this very greatness proved your curse.”

the answer is actually c   i just got done with the test.

hello,

your answer is a) the metaphor suggests that the poetic themes are serious and dark.

collins is comparing the poem to a dark room. he is suggesting that the poems theme is serious and wants you to understand it. you don't need to understand the poet in order to understand the poem. you also don't need to move around while reading it. he is simply saying the poem has a dark and serious theme.

- i.a -

answer: b) bubbling its way

explanation: an adjective is a word or a group of words that modifies a noun (name, thing, place,

in this case, the first option "to heartily enjoy" isn't describing or modifying any noun, the third option "hiking along merrily" is describing an action but it doesn't modify any noun, the last option "beside us" is just a preposition that indicates position, so the correct answer is the second one: "bubbling its way" because it is modifying the noun "stream".