D. yellow corn
“I have nothing else to give you,
so it is a pot full of yellow corn”
The Odyssey, an epic, was written by Homer, a renowned Greek epic poet. The prequel to this book is The Iliad and leads off with the end of the Siege of Troy and the disappearance of Odysseus. The Odyssey is set in a time ten years since the fall of Troy in the kingdom of Ithaca, a dark time where the missing hero Odysseus is still nowhere to be seen. Told in the perspective of his beloved son, the plot outlines the search for Odysseus.
The Atlantic Ocean around the North Pole is ice-covered.
The extended simile in the passage is: As when a circling wall the builder forms, Of strength defensive against wind and storms, Compacted stones the thickening work compose, and round him wide the rising structure grows.
A simile is a figure of speech that compares one thing from another thing of a different kind. It adds meaning to the text because it emphasizes the:
a. Strength of the wall - which is likened to being a barrier that can be used as protection from wind and storms.
b. Size of the structure - which was built with hours of hard work and construction materials that can withstand such great forces of war.
