Read this excerpt from homer's odyssey and pay close attention to the list of names.

they reached the meeting grounds with throngs of people streaming in their trail as a press of young champions rose for competition. topsail and riptide rose, the helmsman roshard too and seaman and sternman, surf-at-the-beach and stroke-oar. breaker and bowsprit, racing-the-wind and swing-aboard and seagirt the son of greatfleet, shipwringhtson and the son of launcher, broadsea, rose up too. .

what is this an example of?
a. an invocation
b. a catalogue
c. an epic simile
d. an epithet