In the sentence, "And now Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and Confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson," the word "august" can best be described to mean:.

The word "august" is used to refer to mean "distinguished or respected".

Explanation:

A Rose family is a short story penned by William Faulkner in 1930.

In the story, the author used the phrase "august name", in the second paragraph while writing about Miss Emily and commenting on her death and funeral.

Th author, Faulkner has used the word "august" which means "distinguished" or "respected". Faulkner used this word referring to the names of those families who were buried in the same cemetery as Emily.

The phrase "august names" is used for prestigious families who owned plantations and those individuals who were ranked Confederate soldiers.

So, the correct answer is "distinguished and respected".

1. alliteration

2. wistful

agamemnon was the leader of the greek troops in the trojan wars and orestes was his son. when agamemnon returned from the war, he was murdered by his wife's lover in conjunction with his wife. orestes could not stop them but he seeked vengeance for his father. after a long time, he found them and avenged his father while killing them. he killed his mother, but greek mythology claims that his act was just and he was spared the remorse and the guilt. there are a lot of similarities with the ulysses/telemachus father son pair. ulysses was also one of the leaders of the excursion to troy. he still has not returned home, but in a sense the suitors of penelope are marring his estate and his reputation. while penelope is faithful to ulysses, the suitors by taking hold of the palace and committing their shameful acts are dishonoring ulysses. in the same context, telemachus is asked just like orestes to restitution his father's honor, regardless of whether he is alive or dead. athena is him and encouraging him with this example and he himself feels the need to save his father