Homer's Odyssey, Book 6, translated by Samuel Butler: "He looked like some lion of the wilderness that stalks about exulting in his strength and defying both wind and rain." What does this comparison carry into the scene?

Homer's Odyssey, Book 8, translated by Samuel Butler: "He wept as a woman weeps when she throws herself on the body of her husband who has fallen before his own city." Why is this comparison surprising?

Homer's Odyssey, Book 4, translated by Samuel Butler: "Like a lioness caught in the toils with huntsmen hemming her in on every side she thought and thought till she sank into a slumber." What does the comparison say about Penelope?

Homer's Odyssey, Book 5, Samuel Butler: the sea, "whose waves he skimmed like a cormorant that flies fishing every hole and corner of the ocean, and drenching its thick plumage in the spray." What does this give Mercury's flight?

Homer's Odyssey, Book 23, Samuel Butler: "As the sight of land is welcome to men who are swimming towards the shore, when Neptune has wrecked their ship... even so was her husband welcome to her." What is striking here?

Homer's Odyssey, Book 10, translated by Samuel Butler: "I heard... the death cries of my men, as the Laestrygonians speared them like fishes and took them home to eat them." What does the comparison do to the men?

Homer's Odyssey, Book 12, translated by Alexander Pope: "Sunk were at once the winds; the air above, / And waves below, at once forgot to move." Which figure of speech is at work in "forgot to move"?

Homer's Odyssey, Book 9, translated by Alexander Pope: "As when a shipwright stands his workmen o'er, / Who ply the wimble, some huge beam to bore." This comparison brings a workshop scene into the Cyclops' cave.

Homer's Odyssey, Book 12, translated by Alexander Pope, the Sirens sing: "Approach! thy soul shall into raptures rise! / Approach! and learn new wisdom from the wise!" What does the repeated word "Approach!" do?

Homer's Odyssey, Book 12, translated by Alexander Pope: "Some demon calm'd the air and smooth'd the deep, / Hush'd the loud winds, and charm'd the waves to sleep." What do the repeated s and sh sounds do?

Homer's Odyssey, Book 12, translated by Alexander Pope: "Now round the masts my mates the fetters roll'd, / And bound me limb by limb with fold on fold." What do "limb by limb" and "fold on fold" do?

Homer's Odyssey, Book 11, translated by Alexander Pope: "They scream, they shriek; and groans and dismal sounds / Stun my scared ears, and pierce hell's utmost bounds." What does the run of s sounds do?

Alexander Pope's Odyssey, Book 12: "Oh stay, O pride of Greece! Ulysses, stay! / Oh cease thy course, and listen to our lay! / Blest is the man ordain'd our voice to hear, / The song instructs the soul, and charms the ear." Name the rhyme scheme.

Homer's Odyssey, Book 1, translated by Samuel Butler. Mentes tells Telemachus: "As for my ship, it lies over yonder off the open country away from the town." Where must the speaker be standing?

Homer's Odyssey, Book 13, translated by Samuel Butler. Ulysses asks: "what land and country is this? Who are its inhabitants? Am I on an island, or is this the sea board of some continent?" What do the words show?

Homer's Odyssey, Book 22, translated by Samuel Butler. Ulysses says to the suitors: "Dogs, did you think that I should not come back from Troy? You have wasted my substance." What does "come back" commit the speaker to?

Homer's Odyssey, Book 9, translated by Samuel Butler. Ulysses says: "I will tell you my name... though I live so far away from all of you. I am Ulysses son of Laertes... I live in Ithaca." Where is the speaker?

Homer's Odyssey, Book 12, translated by Alexander Pope, the Sirens sing: "Oh cease thy course, and listen to our lay!" What does "cease thy course" show about where the two sides are?

Homer's Odyssey, Book 11, translated by Alexander Pope: "My mates ascend the ship; they strike their oars; / The mountains lessen, and retreat the shores." Where must the speaker be for the shores to retreat?

Homer's Odyssey, Book 6, translated by Samuel Butler. Nausicaa tells Ulysses: "Presently, however, we shall come to the town, where you will find a high wall running all round it." Where are the two of them?