Hello there,
<span>How does understanding the characteristics of public speaking affect how you view a speech?
</span><span>It helps you determine how effective the speech is. The way the speaker make's and present's his speech really affect's the way you view that speaker. As you do that, this can help you to determine how effective the speech can be.
~Jurgen</span>
An epic simile often uses words such as like or as, and that one starts excerpt starts with As. It also makes sense as a simile. It is referring to a ploughman and to Ulysses. That would be my best guess. I am not 100% positive, but that is what I would put.
A. a misty evening in November
