What is an example of an epic simile in The Odyssey book 12?

Answer 1

1.) "…all the sea was like a cauldron/ seething over intense fire, when the mixture/ suddenly heaves and rises."

apex: detailed description

2.) "A distant field, no hearth fires near Will hide a fresh brand in his bed of embers to keep a spark alive for the next day; so in the leaves Odysseus hid himself."

(above was in my schools Jeopardy game for The Odyssey)

Answer 2

In Book 12 of The Odyssey, an example of an epic simile is when Homer compares Odysseus' struggle with Scylla to a fisherman on a cliff hauling in a large catch. This comparison emphasizes the difficulty and fear that Odysseus faces as he navigates past the monster.

Answer 3

I drove my weight on it from above and bored it home like a shipwright bores his beam with a shipwright's drill that men below, whipping the strap back and forth, whirl and the drill keeps twisting, never stopping --So we seized our stake with it fiery tip and bored it round and round in the giant's eye. (Odysseus gives a descriptive account of how he defeats the Cyclops Polyphemus. Because he is speaking to the Phaecians, a sea-faring people, they would understand the comparison to a shipwright's drill.)

its crackling roots blazed and hissed - as a blacksmith plunges a glowing ax or adze in an ice-cold bath and the metal screeches steam and its temper hardens - that's the iron's strength - so the eye of Cyclops sizzled round that stake.(Odysseus compares the sizzling sound of the Cyclops' eye to that of sticking fire-hot metal in cold water.)

"Weak as the doe that beds down her fawns in a mighty lion's den - her newborn sucklings - then trails off to the mountain spurs and grassy bends to graze her fill, but back the lion comes to his own lair and the master deals both fawns a ghastly, bloody death, just what Odysseus will deal that mob - ghastly death."

Answer 4

A man surf-casting on a point of rock for bass or

mackerel, whipping his long rod to drop the sinker

and the bait far out, will hook a fish and rip it from

the surface to dangle wriggling through the air; so

these were borne aloft in spasms toward the cliff.

Book 12, lines 822-827 (p. 683)

Answer 5

there is imagery everywhere in the book. from the descriptons of Circe's castle to the sea itself.

Answer 6

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“as the snow melts, mountain streams run full: so her white cheeks were wetted by these tears shed for her lord” (pg 360 lines 245-7).