Italicized words are those which are written in a ‘slant’ way. We often come across such italicized words and sentences in novels, poems, and written documents.
Italicized style of writing is used mainly to draw attention on the important things.
In the sentence, ’Although the women was attacked by a swarm of bees, she managed to escape with little injury’, the term that should be used as an Italicized word is probably ‘attacked.’ When readers read attacked, it makes them curious to know as to what will happen next? So attacked is mostly the word which can draw a readers attention.
The term collective noun is used to indicate a group of objects, people, animals, or ideas as one single thing or one single concept. Some examples of it are army, band, family, group, staff, crew, team, committee, cast, <u>and swarm</u>. Due to this, the answer is collective noun.
In my opinion it relates to athletes only because it talks about winning victory and then at the end of the poem it explains how you will soon be forgotten by saying "the name died before the man."
