<em>The men felt grief as they lay offshore and waited. </em>
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<u>Explanation:</u>
The winds brought lots of destruction from their side. The storms which were raised against the ships was driving destruction and the nights on the lands and the sea was also affected. Death was foreseen amidst the storms and the windful nights. They were sickening at heart and felt sad while they awaited and laid offshore when the ringlets were ringing and so.
The key details that should be included in a paraphrase of this passage are: A, B and D.
Explanation:
These three sentences provide the cause of the storm: Zeus's rage; the duration of the god's punishment: the men were stranded for two days; and the consecuence it produced: the sails of the ships were broken. These are all key point that need to be recovered when doing a paraphrase.
The other two sentences provide secondary information, since the feelings of Odysseus and his men are not relevant in this passage.
