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Based on the epic simile, how should the reader picture the beam of wood Odysseus found in the cave?
Here are the means I though would serve my turn: a club, or staff, lay there along the fold- an olive tree, felled green and left to season for ...
The Odyssey
Based on the epic simile, how should the reader picture the beam of wood Odysseus found in the cave?
Here are the means I though would serve my turn:
a club, or staff, lay there along the fold-
an olive tree, felled green and left to season
for Cyclops' hand. And it was like a mast
a lugger of twenty oars, board in the beam-
a deep-sea-going craft-might carry:
so long, so big around, it seemed.
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The Odyssey: Central Ideas and Character Motivation, Part 2 Flashcards
Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards terms like Read the excerpt from The Odyssey. Neither reply nor pity came from him, but in one stride he clutched at my companions and caught two in his hands like squirming puppies to beat their brains out, spattering the floor. Then he dismembered them and made his meal, gaping and crunching like a mountain lion— everything: innards, flesh, and marrow bones. What can be inferred about the Cyclops?, Nohbdy, Nohbdy's tricked me, Nohbdy's ruined me!' To this rough shout they made a sage reply: 'Ah well, if nobody has played you foul there in your lonely bed, we are no use in pain given by great Zeus. Let it be your father, Poseidon Lord, to whom you pray.' So saying they trailed away. And I was filled with laughter to see how like a charm the name deceived them. In the excerpt, the word "charm" is being compared with, Why not take these cheeses, get them stowed, come back, throw open all the pens, and make a run for it? We'll drive the kids and lambs aboard. We say put out again on good salt water!' Ah, how sound that was! Yet I refused. I wished to see the caveman, what he had to offer— no pretty sight, it turned out, for my friends. Based on this excerpt, what inference can be made about Odysseus? Check all that apply. and more.
The Odyssey: Central Ideas and Character Motivation, Part 2
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Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.
Neither reply nor pity came from him,
but in one stride he clutched at my companions
and caught two in his hands like squirming puppies
to beat their brains out, spattering the floor.
Then he dismembered them and made his meal,
gaping and crunching like a mountain lion—
everything: innards, flesh, and marrow bones.
What can be inferred about the Cyclops?
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He is savage and brutal like a wild animal.
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Nohbdy, Nohbdy's tricked me, Nohbdy's ruined me!'
To this rough shout they made a sage reply:
'Ah well, if nobody has played you foul
there in your lonely bed, we are no use in pain
given by great Zeus. Let it be your father,
Poseidon Lord, to whom you pray.'
So saying
they trailed away. And I was filled with laughter
to see how like a charm the name deceived them.
In the excerpt, the word "charm" is being compared with
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Read the excerpt from The Odyssey.
Neither reply nor pity came from him,
but in one stride he clutched at my companions
and caught two in his hands like squirming puppies
to beat their brains out, spattering the floor.
Then he dismembered them and made his meal,
gaping and crunching like a mountain lion—
everything: innards, flesh, and marrow bones.
What can be inferred about the Cyclops?
He is savage and brutal like a wild animal.
Nohbdy, Nohbdy's tricked me, Nohbdy's ruined me!'
To this rough shout they made a sage reply:
'Ah well, if nobody has played you foul
there in your lonely bed, we are no use in pain
given by great Zeus. Let it be your father,
Poseidon Lord, to whom you pray.'
So saying
they trailed away. And I was filled with laughter
to see how like a charm the name deceived them.
In the excerpt, the word "charm" is being compared with
name Why not
take these cheeses, get them stowed, come back,
throw open all the pens, and make a run for it?
We'll drive the kids and lambs aboard. We say
put out again on good salt water!'
Ah,
how sound that was! Yet I refused. I wished
to see the caveman, what he had to offer—
no pretty sight, it turned out, for my friends.
Based on this excerpt, what inference can be made about Odysseus? Check all that apply.
Odysseus's curiosity about the Cyclops is stronger than his good judgment.
Odysseus wants to see if the Cyclops has anything to give to him and his men.
O Cyclops! Would you feast on my companions?
Puny, am I, in a Caveman's hands?
How do you like the beating that we gave you,
you damned cannibal? Eater of guests
under your roof! Zeus and the gods have paid you!'
According to this excerpt, Odysseus
is prideful and overly confident.
Neither reply nor pity came from him,
but in one stride he clutched at my companions
and caught two in his hands like squirming puppies
to beat their brains out, spattering the floor.
The epic simile in this excerpt shows
how helpless Odysseus's men are in the clutches of the Cyclops.
Here are the means I thought would serve my turn:
a club, or staff, lay there along the fold—
an olive tree, felled green and left to season
for Cyclops' hand. And it was like a mast
a lugger of twenty oars, broad in the beam—
a deep-sea-going craft—might carry:
so long, so big around, it seemed.
Based on the epic simile, how should the reader picture the beam of wood Odysseus found in the cave?
like the mast of an enormously large ship
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.
What two things are being compared in this epic simile?
the stone to a quiver
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 helps readers understand that
the enormous stone is easily and routinely moved by the giant Cyclops.
My ship?
Poseidon Lord, who sets the earth a-tremble,
broke it up on the rocks at your land's end.
A wind from seaward served him, drove us there.
We are survivors, these good men and I.'
What motivates Odysseus to tell a lie to the Cyclops?
Odysseus does not want to reveal their only means of escape.
In the next land we found were Cyclopes,
giants, louts, without a law to bless them.
In ignorance leaving the fruitage of the earth in mystery
to the immortal gods, they neither plow
nor sow by hand, nor till the ground, though grain—
wild wheat and barley—grows untended, and
Based on the epic simile, how should the reader picture the beam of wood Odysseus found in the cave?
Answer: Here are the significant extracts which describe the appearance of the pole. "Lying in the pen the Cyclops had a huge staff of green olive-wood, which he had cut to carry in his hand when it was seasoned. To us it looked more like the mast of some black ship of twenty oars, a broad-botto...
Based on the epic simile, how should the reader picture the beam of wood Odysseus found in the cave?
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Here are the significant extracts which describe the appearance of the pole.
"Lying in the pen the Cyclops had a huge staff of green olive-wood, which he had cut to carry in his hand when it was seasoned. To us it looked more like the mast of some black ship of twenty oars, a broad-bottomed merchantman such as makes long sea-voyages. That was the impression which its length and thickness made on us." Od.9.320
Then, the way Odysseus shapes it:
"Standing beside this piece of timber I cut off a fathom's length, which I handed over to my men and told them to smooth it down. When they had done this I stood and sharpened it to a point. Then I hardened it in the fire" Od.9.325
And the final description:
"I went at once and thrust our pole deep under the ashes of the fire to make it hot, and meanwhile gave a word of encouragement to all my men, to make sure that no one would hang back through fear. When the fierce glow from the olive stake warned me that it was about to catch alight in the flames, green as it was, I withdrew it from the fire and my men gathered around. A god now inspired them with tremendous courage. Seizing the olive pole, they drove its sharpened end into the Cyclops' eye, while I used my weight from above to twist it home, like a man boring a ship's timber with a drill which his mates below him twirl with a strap they hold at either end, so that it spins continuously." Od.9.375
It seems to be a large stick, compared to the mast of a ship, and made from young olive wood. It's a smoothed walking stick to the Cyclops, possibly used for shepherding his flocks, but it takes a number of Odysseus' men to hold it. A fathom is just under two metres long. He then sharpens and hardens one end into a point, and his men smooth the rest, to remove splinters or to make it easier to hold, I presume.
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