I stand offstage with Mr. Dodd and wait for my final cue. The dry-ice machine has been turned on full blast and an incredible amount of fake smoke is making its way toward the painted backdrop of Troy. Hector’s papier-mâché head has accidentally slipped from Achilles’ hand and is now making a hollow sound as it rolls across the stage. List the descriptive words and phrases from the passage above.

The descriptive use of language built the imaginative scene in the text.

Explanation:

The descriptive language of the passage is rich and rife with allusions that work really well.

This includes:

1. now making a hollow sound as it rolls across the stage

2. The dry-ice machine has been turned on full blast

The passages here describe the stage performance with a minute detail while the phrases flow with the real flow of the performance to give a feeling of frenzy in the text as it comes with the performance of a classical narrative.

bring it bro

explanation:

b. and i with my fighting heart, i thought at

first / to steal up to him [the cyclops].   the cyclops’ actions first odysseus to take

action after killing his men and trapping in the cave revealed his intent of

doing them harm.   that is why odysseus

blinded him to enable him and his men to escape.