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English, 19.10.2019 20:30 nancyrj3860

Read the following passage and answer the question.

my children, latest generation born from cadmus, why are you sitting here with wreathed sticks in supplication to me, while the city fills with incense, chants and cries of pain?


so i have come in person—i, oedipus,
whose fame all men acknowledge.


i shall assist you willingly in every way.
i would be a hard-hearted man indeed,
if i did not pity suppliants like these.

the phrase “born from cadmus” is an example of

a motif
a patronymic
foreshadowing
irony

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