Read the passage from The Odyssey - Teiresias. ‘Then a seaborne death soft as this hand of mist will come upon you when you are
wearied out with rich old age, your country folk in blessed peace around you. And all this shall be just as I foretell.’ Teiresias uses a simile to promise Odysseus that he will have a gentle death. die exhausted. have a happy death. die very wealthy.
Teiresias uses a simile to promise Odysseus THAT HE WILL HAVE A HAPPY DEATH. Simile is a figure of speech that is used to compare one thing to another one in order to make the description very emphatic. Teiresias used simile here to tell Odysseus that he will die happy at a good old age.
The tablecloths were all black and drooped gloomily over the edges of the tables. The streamers looked more like cobwebs than party decorations. It looked more like a funeral than a birthday party.
