What is dismal about the hypothetical happenings Juliet
imagines in Act IV, Scene III, is that they are all quite morbidly pessimistic. She imagines that the potion could be
poison. She wonders if she’ll suffocate
in the tomb before she awakens and before Romeo comes for her. She wonders what it would be like to awaken in
the tomb before Romeo comes to her and where Tybalt is decomposing and wonders
if there will be ghosts. And, the last
hypothetical situation she ponders is whether or not she’ll go crazy in the
tomb, pull Tybalt’s corpse out of the burial garb and beat her brains out with a
relative’s bone. In addition to being
pessimistic, this is all quite dismal.
It is an epic simile. This is because the comparisons are "long and involved". The main difference between an epic simile (also known as Homeric simile) and an ordinary simile is than an epic simile is very detailed and can span over many lines. Where as a normal simile usually is contained within one or two lines.
Example of epic simile:
But swift Aias the son of Oïleus would not at all now take his stand apart from Telamonian Aias,
not even a little; but as two wine-coloured oxen straining
with even force drag the compacted plough through the fallow land,
and for both of them at the base of the horns the dense sweat gushes;
only the width of the polished yoke keeps a space between them
as they toil down the furrow till the share cuts the edge of the ploughland;
so these took their stand in battle, close to each other.
Normal simile:
As white as a ghost
Hope this helps !!
Answer:
A process of reasoning in which a particular conclusion is inferred from the known facts is called <u>deduction</u>.
