In Marie Devers' "The Junior Detective", the speaker narrates how she came upon the profession of being a detective. And in her description, she mentions how she stumbled upon <em>"this vocation"</em>, that is, being a detective.
The figurative language that is used in these lines is a simile where the speaker becoming a detective is compared to the process of how detectives solve crimes,<em> "stumbling" </em>upon evidences and declaring a <em>"verdict"</em> at the end of the investigation. Similes are used to compare one thing with a completely different kind, which provides a more detailed image of the thing talked about. And in these lines, her description of how she became a detective is vividly described, allowing the readers to have a proper understanding of the process.
He travel's to the River of Ocean in Cimmerians. There he pours libations and makes sacrifices as Circe earlier instructs him to do to get the souls of the dead.
