So every day I wove on the great loom, but every night by torchlight I
unwove it; and so for three years I deceived the Akhaians.
<span>This line shows that Penelope is clever because at the beginning of the
passage, Penelope requests that the suitors leave her alone and not ask her to
marry until she finishes weaving a death shroud she had already started because
if she were not allowed to finish, her efforts at beginning the shroud would
have been in vain. To this appeal to their
emotions, the suitors agree. And,
knowing the suitors would respect her request, at the end of a day of weaving,
she would undo all she had done in the daytime thereby keeping the suitors at
bay for 3 years. </span>
I believe it would be to inform, the particular excerpt isn't really informing about anything, and its not persuading the reader to do anything, simply attempting to entertain the reader with a story.
