Answer: Only reluctantly does he allow Eurycleia to wash his feet. As she is putting them in a basin of water, she notices a scar on one of his feet. She immediately recognizes it as the scar that Odysseus received when he went boar hunting with his grandfather Autolycus. She then proceeds to wrap her arms around Odysseus to which he silences her so that his secret will not be carried further.
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1. My backpack weighs a ton. ------- hyperbole
2. The daisies danced in the rain ------- personification
3. Your eyes are like stars ------- simile
4. She is a monster ------- metaphor
Explanation:
1. <u>Hyperbole</u><u>:</u> Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
2. <u>Personi</u><u>fication</u><u>:</u> The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
3. <u>Simile</u><u>:</u> A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g. as brave as a lion).
4. <u>Meta</u><u>phor</u><u>:</u> A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn't literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison. ... A metaphor states that one thing is another thing. It equates those two things not because they actually are the same, but for the sake of comparison or symbolism.
The theme of the short story “The Sniper,” is that war reduces humanbeings to mere objects. To further explain it is that they have no names, no faces. That they are just targets and nothing more, to be shot at from a distance. To support this theme Liam O'Flaherty refrains to any of his characters
