Read the following passage and answer the question. "I hail from Crete's broad land, I'm proud to say, and I am a rich man's son
. And many other sons he brought up in this palace, born in wedlock, sprung of his awful wife. Unlike my mother. She was a slave, a concubine he'd purchased, yes, but he treated me on par with all his true-born sons- Caster, Hylaxs's son..." this is an example of which epic convention? A) lengthy speech. B) digression. C) epic simile. D) divine intervention.
It allows the reader to see how the character came to be who he or she is currently, it creates realism in the text, it creates tension between the narrator and the character, etc.
