one sees a white-hot axehead or an adze
plunged and wrung in a cold tub, screeching steam–
the way they make soft iron hale and hard—:
just so that eyeball hissed around the spike.
The use of the epic simile in this excerpt helps the reader understand
A) that the Cyclops only has one eye.
B) how brutal Odysseus and his men are.
C) the size of the wooden spear.
D) how hot the spear actually is.
The answer is D: how hot the spear actually is.
An epic simile, or Homeric simile, is a rhetorical figure that compares, in a relatively lengthy manner, a strange or unfamiliar occurrence with a familiar event or thing. It is usually presented during moments of turmoil and it helps the reader reflect calmly on the scene being depicted.
In the excerpt above, the comparison is made between the blinding of the Cyclops with a hot spike, and how an iron spear is made by first making it hot and they quickly cooling it in order to mold it properly, just like the hot spear used by Odysseus cooled off as it entered the Cyclops eye.
There are many epic similes used in Odysseus. Epic simile or Homeric simile means elaborate comparison of the events which is uncovered later. In these lines Homer describes making of spear - how it is made and how it is hot that when spear is made its warmth could affect the eyes.
To help me sort such needful ornaments
As you think fit to furnish me to-morrow?
How does this example of dramatic irony create tension? (1 point)Readers know that Juliet will miss Nurse.
Readers know that Juliet is misleading Nurse.
Readers know that Juliet plans to obey her father.
Readers know that Nurse is excited to assist Juliet.
Answer:
Answer:
here is the summarized correct test. I will use key words as to not mislead anyone.
1. which statement describes theme.
Hatred between two families
2.Dramatic irony occurs
Unknown to Romeo
3. Shakespeare comic relief
cook licking his fingers
4. read line Romeos monologue act 2 scene 2
love with Juliet not Rosaline
5. act iv scene 5
extent of Capulets grief.
6. Juliet's lines act iv scene 2
misleading nurse
7. act iii scene 1
why did you interfere, arm stabbed me
8. act v scene 3 Prince:
The Capulets and Montagues will experience peace
9. How did Juliet change throughout the play
leap off of tower
10. prologue foreshadow
deaths of Romeo and Juliet
11. headstrong definition
willful
12.confounded
confused
13. procure
obtain
14. cordial
medicine
15. sepulcher
tomb
16. pestilence
plague
17. scathe
harm
18. nimble
agile
19. toiled
worked
I will not do the essay part for it takes too long.
Explanation:
the answer for this question is number 6.
B. Looking away while they're speaking
C. Thinking about what they're saying
D. Interrupting them
i thinks its c (thinking about what they saying)