Alberto is in a play with several scenes that occur in a busy marketplace. for those scenes, the stage is set with a painted backdrop that shows rows of fruit, buckets of cut flowers, and displays of bakery goods. when the audience sees that set and watches the actors on stage, they understand where the scene takes place. what allows the audience to understand where the scene takes place?
a. dramatic convention
b. low comedy
c. farce
d. comic relief

With crack on crack of thunder, zeus let fly a bolt against the ship, a direct hit, so that she bucked, in reeking fumes of sulphur, and all the men were flung into the sea. they came up 'round the wreck, bobbing a while like petrels on the waves. no more seafaring homeward for these, no sweet day of return; the god had turned his face from them. –the odyssey, homer read the passage. then, identify the theme that is supported by the passage. most ships cannot survive a terrible thunderstorm. the ocean is an angry beast that will tame any who try to control it. the gods have the power to control human destiny. men are willing to die to eat the delicious cattle of the gods.