Read the excerpt from The Metamorphoses by Ovid. Jupiter, not thinking the punishment of Lycaon sufficient to strike terror into the rest of mankind, resolves, on account of the universal corruption, to extirpate them by a universal deluge. . . . . . . The weapons forged by the hands of the Cyclops are laid aside; a different mode of punishment pleases him: to destroy mankind beneath the waves, and to let loose the rains from the whole tract of Heaven. Read the excerpt from the adaptation "The Flood” by James Baldwin. "These men,” [Jupiter] said to his mighty company, "are nothing but a source of trouble. When they were good and happy, we felt afraid lest they should become greater than ourselves; and now they are so terribly wicked that we are in worse danger than before. There is only one thing to be done with them, and that is to destroy them every one.” So he sent a great rain-storm upon the earth. Which statement best describes how Baldwin’s adaptation is different from Ovid’s original?

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Ovid’s text uses an omniscient narrator to describe Jupiter’s motivation for punishing humans, while Baldwin’s text uses dialogue to present Jupiter’s reasoning.

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