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Discussing the pestilence and the murder is an example of juxtaposition in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, the term juxtaposition describes the placing of abstract concepts or physical objects near each other. The description fits the linkage between the solution of the pestilence and of King Laius' murder. The solution of the murder symbolically is placed alongside that of the pestilence of which it is both the cause and the solution.

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