Question

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

Answer 1

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.