Read the excerpt below and answer the question. so he growled from his depths, hackles rising out their outrage. "bear up, old heart! you've borne worse, far worse, that day when the cyclops, man-mountain, bolted your hardy comrades down. but you held fast—" to what does this passage refer? athena is trying to keep odysseus from killing the suitors too soon. telemachus is trying to calm odysseus from attacking too soon. odysseus is restraining himself from killing the serving-women. odysseus is restraining himself from killing antinous.

Why college athletes should not get paid to play state the claim a. point a b. direct quotation to support point a c. point b d direct quotation to support point b

What steps best a reader determine the central idea of a text? select three options.

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here? irony personification metaphor simile