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Which excerpts contain examples of epic similes? Select 3 options."…its crackling roots blazed and hissed –as a blacksmith plunges a glowing ax or adze in an ice-cold bath and the metal screeches steam and its temper hardens – that's the iron's strength – so the eye of Cyclops sizzled round that stake."Or are you wandering rogues, who cast your lives like dice, and ravage other folk by sea?'Then he dismembered them and made his meal, gaping and crunching like a mountain lion—everything: innards, flesh, and marrow bones.When the young Dawn with finger tips of rose lit up the world, the Cyclops built a fire and milked his handsome ewes, all in due order, putting the sucklings to the mothers.

"…its crackling roots blazed and hissed –as a blacksmith plunges a glowing ax or adze in an ice-cold bath and the metal screeches steam and its temper hardens – that's the iron's strength – so the eye of Cyclops sizzled round that stake."

Or are you wandering rogues, who cast your lives like dice, and ravage other folk by sea?'

Then he dismembered them and made his meal, gaping and crunching like a mountain lion—everything: innards, flesh, and marrow bones.

When the young Dawn with finger tips of rose lit up the world, the Cyclops built a fire and milked his handsome ewes, all in due order, putting the sucklings to the mothers.

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Which excerpt from The Odyssey demonstrate the importance of hospitality in Greek society?

Here is a poor man come, a wanderer,driven by want to beg his bread, and everyonein hall gave bits, to cram his bag—onlyAntinous threw a stool, and banged his shoulder

“Suppose Athena’s arm is over us, and Zeusher father’s, must I rack my brains for more?”

“The cruel belly, can you hide its ache?How many bitter days it brings!”

Odysseus only shook his head, containingthoughts of bloody work, as he walked on,then sat, and dropped his loaded bag againupon the door sill.

Read the excerpt from Part 1 of The Odyssey.And this new grief we bore with us to sea: our precious lives we had, but not our friends. No ship made sail next day until some shipmatehad raised a cry, three times, for each poor ghost unfleshed by the Cicones on that field.

Sadness can destroy people.

One must mourn before moving on.

Many lives are lost too soon in battle.

People are haunted by lost souls.

Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.Here are the means I thought would serve my turn:a club, or staff, lay there along the fold—an olive tree, felled green and left to season for Cyclops' hand. And it was like a mast a lugger of twenty oars, broad in the beam—a deep-sea-going craft—might carry: so long, so big around, it seemed.

like a deep-sea-going ship or vessel

like an olive tree, just felled and still green

like the Cyclops, large and wide

like the mast of an enormously large ship

Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.“Stranger,you are no longer what you were just now!Your cloak is new; even your skin! You areone of the gods who rule the sweep of heaven!Be kind to us, we’ll make you fair oblation and gifts of hammered gold. Have mercy on us!”

The new cloak represents Odysseus’s love for his wife, Penelope, and his grown son, Telemachus.

The new cloak represents Odysseus’s great wealth and successful journey.

The new cloak represents Odysseus’s transformation from a weary traveler to the returning hero.

The new cloak represents Odysseus’s changed character from innocent young man to power-hungry ruler.

Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.Plunder we took, and we enslaved the women,to make division, equal shares to all—but on the spot I told them: 'Back, and quickly! Out to sea again!' My men were mutinous, fools, on stores of wine. Sheep after sheep they butchered by the surf, and shambling cattle,feasting,—while fugitives went inland, running to call to arms the main force of Cicones.

When Odysseus and his men arrived on the island of Cicones, they enslaved women and feasted on the sheep and cattle they had butchered by the sea.

Although Odysseus tells his men that they need to return quickly to the ship, the men are too busy dividing their findings into equal shares for everyone.

Odysseus warns his men to return to the ship, but many of the men did not listen and instead ran inland to see what else they could take for themselves.

The men continued their acts of greed despite Odysseus’s commands to stop and return to the ship, and the fugitives of Cicones ran inland to fetch help.

Which excerpt from Part 2 of The Odyssey best supports the conclusion that Odysseus is clever?

the rest of you stand by; I'll make the crossingin my own ship, with my own company,

We lit a fire, burnt an offering,and took some cheese to eat; then sat in silence

‘My name is Nohbdy: mother, father, and friends,everyone calls me Nohbdy.’

So with our brand we bored that great eye socketwhile blood ran out around the red hot bar.

Use the dictionary entry for lore to answer the question.lorelore [‘lor] nounfrom Old English leornian1. something that is taught2. something that is learned3. a body of knowledge or tradition4. the space between the eye and the bill in a bird5. the space between the eye and the mouth in a reptile or fish

a tale

a superstition

a lesson

a face

A value is important to a society because it is

the measure used to determine how good a person is.

an amount of goods or services considered reasonable.

a human characteristic that is considered desirable.

the financial cost of an item, which is very important.

Use the thesaurus entry for assess to answer the question.assessverbDefinition: to make a judgment about something;to impose a feeSynonyms: appraise, charge, fine, judge, test, valueAntonyms: guess, ignore, neglect, pardon

appraise

charge

fine

test

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