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English, 11.10.2019 06:00 sreeytran

In book 9 of the odyssey, what convention of the epic is homer using in the following passage?
"as a blacksmith plunges an axe or hatchet into cold water to temper it…it makes a great hiss as he does so, even thus did the cyclops' eye hiss round the beam of olive "

a. allusion
b. epic simile
c. epithet
d. invocation

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