Read the excerpt from the odyssey.

‘o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands,
if i am thine indeed, and thou art father:
grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never
see his home: laertes' son, i mean,
who kept his hail on ithaca. should destiny
intend that he shall see his roof again
among his family in his father land,
far be that day, and dark the years between.
let him lose all companions, and return
under strange sail to bitter days at home.'

what motivates the cyclops to ask poseidon for the demise of odysseus and all his men? check all that apply.

he hates all the greeks because they destroyed troy.
he wants revenge for the loss of his eye.
he thinks all of mankind is weak and feeble.
he is angered by odysseus’s taunts.

Read the passage adapted from aesop’s fables. what is the theme of the story?

Read the excerpt from twelfth night, by william shakespeare. if music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. that strain again! it had a dying fall: o, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour! now read the excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." for i have known them all already, known them all: have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, i have measured out my life with coffee spoons; i know the voices dying with a dying fall beneath the music from a farther room. what does the phrase “dying fall” most likely mean in both excerpts? the noise is jarring. the noise is soothing. the sounds are fading. the sounds are too loud. mark this and return

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