He had in wizardry among the cyclops,
and these things he foretold for time to come:
my great eye lost, and at odysseus' hands.
always i had in mind some giant, armed
in giant force, would come against me here.
but this, but you – small, pitiful and twiggy –
you put me down with wine, you blinded me.
-the odyssey,
homer

what deeper meaning is revealed through the cyclops’s interpretation of the prophecy?

a. ignoring a prophecy leads to punishment by the gods.
b. epic heroes can have qualities that one would expect only a supernatural being to have.
c. people are expected to treat guests with respect, and hospitality is rewarded.
d. home is the best place to be.

The implicit details in this excerpt best support the conclusion that mrs. long feels angry about having to ask to borrow books. the speaker asks for books that were often difficult to find. the speaker appreciates the librarian's efforts to get her books. young children are not allowed to borrow books on their own.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. for an african, whether you were sent to the caribbean or south america, you were now part of the sugar machine. and it did not much matter where your ship landed. you could be working the fertile fields of brazil or the hills of jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. how does the use of the word machine support the authors' claim in this passage? its negative connotation indicates that enslaved people had to work like robots instead of human beings. its negative denotation indicates that some people preferred handmade sugar over factory-produced sugar. its positive connotation indicates that plantations ran efficiently and produced huge amounts of sugar. its positive denotation indicates that it was easier for enslaved people to make sugar with machines.

Is the underlined word a direct object or an indirect object? bring yourself an apple to eat. a. indirect object b. direct object