Which literary term is demonstrated in penelope's words in this reading passage? but come now, hear a dream of mine and tell me the interpretation thereof. twenty geese i have in the house, that eat wheat, coming forth from the water, and i am gladdened at the sight. now a great eagle of crooked beak swooped from the mountain, and brake all their necks and slew them; and they lay strewn in a heap in the halls, while he was borne aloft to the bright air. thereon i wept and wailed, in a dream though it was, and around me were gathered the fair-tressed achaean women as i made piteous lament, for that the eagle had slain my geese. but he came back and sat him down on a jutting point of the roof-beam, and with the voice of a man he spake, and stayed my weeping: '"take heart, o daughter of renowned icarius; this is no dream but a true vision, that shall be accomplished for thee. the geese are the wooers, and i that before was the eagle am now thy husband come again, who will let slip unsightly death upon all the wooers." with that word sweet slumber let me go, and i looked about, and beheld the geese in the court pecking their wheat at the trough, where they were wont before.' a. simile b. foreshadowing c. allusion d. paradox