Read the excerpt from the odyssey. then, his chores being all dispatched, he caught another brace of men to make his breakfast, and whisked away his great door slab to let his sheep go through—but he, behind, reset the stone as one would cap a quiver.

the use of the epic simile in this excerpt readers understand that

a. the cyclops has eaten another bunch of odysseus’s men.
b. odysseus and his men are still trapped inside the cave.
c. the enormous stone is easily and routinely moved by the giant cyclops.
d. the cyclops takes his sheep out to pasture with him in the mornings.

What kind of sentence is the following example? before he started tp watch tv, he made sure that he had all of his favorite snacks (ice cream and chips), and he sure to get all of his homework finished.

Retell the main events of this story as jerry might tell them to his best friend when he returns from vacation or to his own son later in life. in the story through the tunnel

With crack on crack of thunder, zeus let fly a bolt against the ship, a direct hit, so that she bucked, in reeking fumes of sulphur, and all the men were flung into the sea. they came up 'round the wreck, bobbing a while like petrels on the waves. no more seafaring homeward for these, no sweet day of return; the god had turned his face from them. –the odyssey, homer read the passage. then, identify the theme that is supported by the passage. most ships cannot survive a terrible thunderstorm. the ocean is an angry beast that will tame any who try to control it. the gods have the power to control human destiny. men are willing to die to eat the delicious cattle of the gods.