Question

Read the excerpt from The Metamorphoses by Ovid. Then, too, as soon as it touched the lips of the God dripping with his wet beard, and being blown, sounded the bidden retreat; it was heard by all the waters both of earth and sea, and stopped all those waters by which it was heard. Now the sea again has a shore; their channels receive the full rivers; the rivers subside; the hills are seen to come forth. The ground rises, places increase in extent as the waters decrease; and after a length of time, the woods show their tops, and retain the mud left upon their branches. Read the excerpt from the adaptation "The Flood” by James Baldwin. After a while the rain stopped falling, and the clouds cleared away, and the blue sky and the golden sun came out overhead. Then the water began to sink very fast and to run off the land towards the sea; and early the very next day the boat was drifted high upon a mountain called Parnassus, and Deucalion and Pyrrha stepped out upon the dry land. After that, it was only a short time until the whole country was laid bare, and the trees shook their leafy branches in the wind, and the fields were carpeted with grass and flowers more beautiful than in the days before the flood. How is Baldwin’s adaptation similar to Ovid’s original? It describes what happens after the flood and how the water recedes. It describes the barrenness of the drowned land after the water subsides. It shows how the flooding is stopped by the declaration of the gods. It shows how the vegetation grows back better than it was before the flood.

Answer 1

Both Ovid's original excerpt from The Metamorphoses and James Baldwin's adaptation describe what happens after the flood and how the water recedes. Both texts also mention the vegetation growing back after the flood.

Step-by-step explanation:

Both Ovid's original excerpt from The Metamorphoses and James Baldwin's adaptation describe what happens after the flood and how the water recedes.

Ovid's excerpt mentions how the sound of the God blowing the retreat stops the waters, causing the sea to again have a shore and the rivers to subside, while Baldwin's adaptation describes how the water sinks and runs off the land towards the sea, eventually leaving the boat high on a mountain and the whole country laid bare.

Both texts also mention the vegetation growing back after the flood, with Baldwin's adaptation describing the fields being carpeted with grass and flowers more beautiful than before the flood.