The excerpt from Homer’s Iliad which contains an epic simile is:
“As wasps, provoked by children in their play,
Pour from their mansions by the broad highway,
In swarms, the guiltless engage,
Whet all their stings, and call forth all their rage: traveler”
The simile in the above excerpt is 'like a swarm of bees.' A simile is a direct comparison between two things. It compares two things by using ‘as’ or ‘like.’ A simile is the figure of speech which directly compares two things which have some features common in them. In the above excerpt, the number of people has been compared with the swarm of bees.
Excuses can ruin true communication if it becomes a habit because it can cause the person on the receiving end to see you as not persistent, not a promise keeper, not a person who follows through with what they say, etc.
Boasting can ruin true communication if it becomes a habit because it can cause others to dislike you. If you brag and boast all the time about things or people you have/seen and others haven't, it can turn people sour. For example, if I kept bothering you about how my computer was better and newer than yours, you wouldn't like it would you?
Always apologizing can ruin true communication if it becomes a bit because it can be so repetitive, people may become suspicious. They might not know when you're actually sincere about your apology, or whether you're just saying sorry again out of habit.
Answer:
D. Unemotional
Explanation:
Although the statements the narrator is making may evoke emotions within the reader and make them feel as if human race were in danger as they may realize that they are being watched by "minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic", and who represent a threat to human's society as they " regarded this earth with envious eyes", the narrator expresses the idea in a very neutral and unemotional way. There is no sign in the text that he or she is angry, panicked nor mysterious (he or she is giving many details).
