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.
To figure out if a word is a closed or open syllable word, look at the vowel (a<span>, </span>e<span>, </span>i<span>, </span>o<span>, </span>u)
wax
open syllables- word ends on a vowel
closed syllables- the vowel is followed by a consonant or more
therefore, wax is a closed syllable
(another example; fro-zen; fro would be the open syllable since it ends on O (vowel); while zen - the e (VOWEL) is followed by a consonant (n)
This is because Yu Tsun is more melancholy and full of foreboding. He says lots of ominous, uncheerful things, like "with the eyes of a man already dead, I contemplated the fluctuations of the day which would probably be my last." Since he's the narrator we hear from the most, the overall tone is one of gloom and doom. The story shows that there are many challenges as the story develops, but in the end h<span>e wraps up every little loose end to his labyrinthine narrative in the space of a single paragraph – and in this case, there's a lot to wrap up. </span>
