What action has Oedipus taken to try to figure out how to stop the plague?

What type of literary device is demonstrated in this passage from the monkeys paw father and son

What does brutus say that anticipates the question of why the crowd should listen to mark antony? o a. not that i lov'd caesar less, but that i lov'd rome more. o b. and, for my sake, stay here with antony. do grace to caesar's corpse, and grace his speech. o c. i thrice presented him a kingly crown, / which he did thrice refuse. was this ambition? od. i come to bury caesar, not to praise him.

What do the sketches of 9/11 victims in "portraits of grief" achieve?