Alcinous is the king of Phaeacia, and he places Odysseus on one of his magicL ships that finally returns him to Ithaca. Alcinous's wife, Queen Arete, is likewise impressed with the godly stranger, and Alcinous is so impressed that he offers Odysseus the hand of his daughter, Nausicaa, in marriage.
Narrative poem and after a process of elimination teasing tone.
To be: am, is, are, was, were
