Read the excerpt from the odyssey.

in a smithy

one sees a white-hot axehead or an adze
plunged and wrung in a cold tub, screeching steam–
the way they make soft iron hale and hard—:
just so that eyeball hissed around the spike.

the use of the epic simile in this excerpt the reader understand

- that the cyclops only has one eye.
- how brutal odysseus and his men are.
- the size of the wooden spear.
- how hot the spear actually is.

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.

Thomas paine's common sense convicted colonists to

How does the author characterize theseus in the story? cite evidence from the text in your response