The odyssey: central ideas and character motivation, part 2

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read the excerpt from the odyssey.

what two things are being compared in this epic simile?

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his chores being all dispatched, he caught

another brace of men to make his breakfast,

and whisked away his great door slab

to let his sheep go through--but he, behind,

reset the stone as one would cap a quiver.

the door slab to the cyclops' sheep

the stone to a quiver

a brace of men to breakfast

the cyclops' chores to the men

world war i began in 1914, after the assassination of archduke franz ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. during the conflict, germany, austria-hungary, bulgaria and the ottoman empire (the central powers) fought against great britain, france, russia, italy, romania, japan and the united states (the allied powers). to new military technologies and the horrors of trench warfare, world war i saw unprecedented levels of carnage and destruction. by the time the war was over and the allied powers claimed victory, more than 16 million people—soldiers and civilians alike—were dead.

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