Oedipus Rex or Oedipus the King Summary. When the play opens, Thebes is suffering a plague which leaves its fields and women barren. Oedipus, the king of Thebes, has sent his brother-in-law, Creon, to the house of Apollo to ask the oracle how to end the plague
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Metaphor. There's no "like" or "as" for it to be a simile anyways, I think.
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