In book 9 of the odyssey, what convention of the epic is homer using in the following passage?
"as a blacksmith plunges an axe or hatchet into cold water to temper it…it makes a great hiss as he does so, even thus did the cyclops' eye hiss round the beam of olive "

a. allusion
b. epic simile
c. epithet
d. invocation

Read the excerpt from act v, scene iii of romeo and juliet. juliet: go, get thee hence, for i will not away. [exit friar laurence.] what’s here? a cup, clos’d in my true love’s hand? poison, i see, hath been his timeless end. o churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop to me after! i will kiss thy lips; haply, some poison yet doth hang on them, to make me die with a restorative. [kisses him.] which tragic flaw of juliet’s character is reflected in this excerpt? a) her optimistic way of seeing the world b) her tendency to act without forethought c) her tendency to act out of vengeance d) her carefree way of living life