The statement best explains the simile in this excerpt is option C which is Cyclops’ effort to move the stone is compared to a simple task, showing his strength.
<h3>What is simile?</h3>
Simile is a type of figure of speech that uses as or like to make comparison between two objects or individual in a sentence. There is comparison on the efforts applied to achieve the task.
Therefore, The statement best explains the simile in this excerpt is option C because there is comparison about cyclops efforts and the things he performed to accomplish the task.
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This excerpt belongs to The Odyssey. The plot:
"Ten years have gone since the fall of Troy, and the Greek legend Odysseus still has not come back to his kingdom in Ithaca. An expansive and rambunctious horde of suitors who have to invade Odysseus' royal residence and looted his territory keep on pursuing his significant other, Penelope. She has stayed reliable to Odysseus. Sovereign Telemachus, Odysseus' child, needs frantically to toss them out yet does not have the certainty or experience to battle them. One of the suitors, Antinous, plans to kill the youthful ruler, disposing of the main restriction to their domain over the royal residence."
Answer:
Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
Explanation: The poem is written about the uprising of 1953 in East Germany. It transmits how the government had disappointed the people and how nobody believed in anything anymore. The author finishes the poem with a key question; "Would it not be easier in that case for the government to dissolve the people, and elect another?". These stanzas make the reader reflect on how difficult it is for the people to elect a good leader, and how difficult it is for the government to lead and don't break society's trust.
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Answer:
D, children with torn clothes and empty stomaches
It isn't a complex it is a compound. There are two independent clauses in the sentence that make it compound.
