The Monks Tale fits the category of a parable, because a parable is a story that is used to explain something else, which is what the monks tale is doing.
Answer: The speaker's soft, deceitful wiles help to lessen his wrath.
Explanation:
The meaning of the figurative language in these lines shows that "the speaker's soft, deceitful wiles help to lessen his wrath".
The metaphor is used in this scenario to make comparison of an anger to a tree. We should note that a while means a truck that's deceitful. Therefore, the deceitful wiles by the narrator is to lesson his wrath at that particular time even though he may be planning something that's mischievous later.
When Odysseus goes to inspect the cave that he later learns belongs to the Cyclops, Polyphemus, he brings with him a goat skin bottle of dark wine that was given to him by Maron.
Odysseus does not agree with the men stealing food from the cyclops Polyphemus's cave not because he believes it is a moral wrong, but because he believes that if the men meet Polyphemus and request shelter, the cyclops will offer shelter and a valuable gift, as is the social and religious expectation in Odysseus's world.
In the end Odysseus’s men were correct and Odysseus’s plan goes completely awry when Polyphemus appears and attacks and eats some of Odysseus's men. Polyphemus does not observe the social norm of hospitality, as he does not believe himself to be subservient to the gods, such as Zeus, who favor humans who observe hospitality. However Odysseus manages to blind Polyphemus and escapes the island with the remainder of his men. Odysseus let his overconfidence overshadow the cautious suggestion of the men to sneak off with the food from Polyphemus's cave.
I read Ted Chiang’s excerpt “EXHALATION” and the correct answer would be D, <u><em>“IT CREATES A FEELING OF HOPE AND PERSONAL REFLECTION”.</em></u> The whole excerpt is talking about life in a scientific way, it’s trying to make the reader to have a vision about some scientific facts about our organism.
The excerpt states 2 theories. The first one is about our memories and that the things that we forget are indeed gone forever and there is nothing we can do to have them back. And the second one is about contrasting reality vs science.