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 Odyssey, Homer Based on the epic simile, how should the poem’s listener picture the Cyclops’s eye? like a smithy’s shop full of interesting tools like a soft, cold piece of iron like a hissing piece of hot metal in cold water

Why does juelz get bit by an alligator and why was arthur the only one who in the middle chapter of the book

Read this excerpt from holes. at the time, elya thought nothing of the curse. he was just a fifteen-year-old kid, and “eternity” didn’t seem much longer than a week from tuesday. besides, he liked madame zeroni and would be glad to carry her up the mountain. he would have done it right then and there, but he wasn’t yet strong enough. how does this section of the flashback relate to stanley? a.elya was much older during his difficult time than stanley was during his. b.elya’s physical weakness parallels stanley’s physical weakness. c.elya, like stanley, lives in the moment and does not consider the future. d.elya, like stanley, likes the character who is giving him a hard time.

What word or words suggest they have a monotonous marriage? in the lamb to the slaughter