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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
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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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