From research, i saw the same question with the excerpt: <span>He sate, and eyed the sun, and wish'd the night;
Slow seem'd the sun to move, the hours to roll,
His native home deep-imaged in his soul.
As the tired ploughman, spent with stubborn toil,
Whose oxen long have torn the furrow'd soil,
Sees with delight the sun's declining ray,
When home with feeble knees he bends his way
To late repast (the day's hard labour done);
So to Ulysses welcome set the sun; </span> The choices are: <span>simile epic simile metaphor epithet </span> So the answer is "EPIC SIMILE"
I think that it means that the ocean consists of islands and continents with different weather natural resources animals and plants. The ocean has a limit and eventuallyyou will be faced with a continent to get around
