What is a metaphor from The Odyssey?

Answer 1

A simile is a figure of speech comparing something to something else and usually follows the words "as" or "like" eg He was as strong as a lion. The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold.

Some examples in The Odyssey are:

Like a lioness caught in the toils with huntsmen hemming her in on every side

Read page 463 in the unabridged version, book 23 between lines 259 to 278. It describes Penelopes feeling Odysseus' journey.

Answer 2

In book 1, the epic simile is line 46-51 of "Sea Pearls and Defeat", and it reads "Her legs and there are twelve are like great tentacles, unjointed, and upon her serpent necks are borne six heads like nightmares of ferocity, with triple serried rows of fangs and deep gullets of black death."

Answer 3

One metaphor in The Odyssey is when Odysseus is compared to a lion while fighting against the suitors in his house. This metaphor emphasizes Odysseus' strength, bravery, and regal nature in battle.

Answer 4

when telemachos leaves menelaus' house and says that he has to travel the ends of the earth. meanwhile he was only traveling across the ocean.

Answer 5

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