Match the following epic devices with their definitions: 1. invocation of the muses
long, formal speeches in epics in
which common phrases and words are
used to create emphasis
words or phrases used to
characterize epic heroes, gods, and
goddesses
a departure from the main subject
2. epic similes
3. lengthy speeches
in order to focus on a related matter
4. digression
5. epithets
the use of a variety of words and
phrases within the Odyssey, which
reveal what the ancient Greeks valued
the calling forth of inspiration from
the goddesses to help them tell their
story
a figurative devise used to compare
two unlike people or things, often
running for several lines
6. repetition of passages

Which techniques best describe the tone the author is using in this passage?

What did mark twain contribute to the history of the novel? select all that apply.

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant