The answer is:
There was no long run-up to the jump.
The jumper carried special weights.
The jumper made more than one jump.
In the excerpt from "The Ancient City," the author Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges makes reference to the long jump exhibited in ancient Greek athletics, which was quite different from modern long jump. For example, there is indication that the athletes did not run before performing the jump, so they probably executed numerous jumps. He also mentions that athletes moved forward special weights, called halteres, which provided impulse to the jump.
Juxtaposition is used to make comparison and contrasting of the ideas and the concepts placed side by side.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Juxtaposition is one of the most commonly used literary techniques. This kind of literary techniques is used to put two ideas, concepts, characters or the actions of the characters, places side by side in the poem or the story in which it is used.
This is done for the readers of the poems or the narrations to make comparisons or the contrasts between the ideas and the concepts which have been placed side by side.
