What are 2 extended metaphors in the Odyssey?
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sorry, i'm not doing your homework for you.....
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1) Oedipus Rex is perhaps the most famous example of dramatic irony you will encounter.\n\n***You know that dramatic irony is when we know more than the characters (or speakers) involved.***  Since you have that in mind, here are some more examples:\n\n2) Protocols by Randal Jarrell\n\nWe went there on the train. They had big barges that they towed.\nWe stood up, there were so many I was squashed.\nThere was a smoke-stack, then they made me wash.\nIt was a factory, I think. My mother held me up\nAnd I could see the ship that made the smoke.\nWhen I was tired my mother carried me.\nShe said, "Don't be afraid." But I was only tired.\nWhere we went there is no more .Odessa.\nThey had water in a pipe--like rain, but hot;\nThe water there is deeper than the world\nAnd I was tired and fell in in my sleep\nAnd the water drank me. That is what I think.\nAnd I said to my mother, "Now I'm washed and dried.”\nMy mother hugged me and it smelled like hay\nAnd that is how you die. And that is how you die.\n\n***Dramatic irony in that the child thinks she is "washed and dried" when in fact we know she was killed in a camp during the holocaust.***\n\n                                                               \n\n3) The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter \nby Ezra Pound.\n\n                                 \nWhile my hair was still cut straight across my forehead\nI played about the front gate, pulling flowers.\nYou came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse,\nYou walked about my seat, playing with blue plums,\nAnd we went on living in the village of Chokan:\nTwo small people, without dislike or suspicion.\n\nAt fourteen I married My Lord you.\nI never laughed, being bashful.\nLowering my head, I looked at the wall.\nCalled to, a thousand times, I never looked back.\n\nAt fifteen, I stopped scowling,\nI desired my dust to be mingled with yours\nForever and forever and forever.\nWhy should I climb the lookout.\n\nAt sixteen you departed.\nYou went into far Ku-to-yen, by the river of swirling eddies,\nAnd. you have been gone five months.\nThe monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead.\n\nYou dragged your feet when you went out.\nBy the gate now, the moss is grown, the different mosses,\nToo deep to clear them away!\nThe leaves fall early this autumn, in wind.\nThe paired butterflies are already yellow with August\nOver the grass in the West garden;\nThey hurt me. I grow older.\n\nIf you are coming down through the narrows of the river Kiang,\nPlease let me know beforehand,\nAnd I will come out to meet you\n                As far as Cho-fu-Sa.\n\n***Dramatic irony since we know the guy (a bastard who takes advantage of young girls) will never return, yet she waits and hopes).***\n\nRegards,\n\nMysstere
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First and foremost, do you mean how to create a grammatical construction known as an "epic simile" or how to write a simile on Homer? \n\nIn the latter case you need to emulate the rythm of the Homeric epic poems - the so-called "hexameter". It implies that you stress every third syllable, starting with the first one, so that whoever reads it will find him- or herself going "DI-da-da-DI-da-da-DI-da-da..."  Homer usually had about five or six such sequences (each DI-da-da being one sequence) per line and so should you if you want to write a simile. Secondly, Homer only ever wrote blank-verses. That is: while the rythm was stringent the end of the lines did not rhyme.\n\nIn contemporary English one example could be "FIRMly in HAND had he TAken the SWORD of his FAther. ENimies SAW him and REcoiled in PAnic and ANguish. HECtor, his ALly, took HEED from his PREsence and BELlowed: WHY have you COME to the FIGHT with such UNseemly LATEness?" And so on. If you use my text for your essay, please don't forget to un-capitalise the syllables... ;-)\n\nIf your question was simply about extended, or epic similes, well, these are similes which have been... er... extended. Simile evolves around the word "like" or "as" comparing one object with another. (And unlike metaphors which basically postulate that the two objects are identical.)\n\nEXTENDED (or epic) similes are similes which compare an object not just with another object but, at the same time, with a whole range of observations about this object. Here is a suitably Biblical example: "The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid; and from joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field." A basic simile would have been "The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure". The fact that the text goes on and on to elaborate on this treasure makes it an extended simile.
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Homer...the poet, philosopher, auther...not the simpson. and the whole quote is \n\nControl your mind or it will control you. Put it in reins, cast it in chains
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Study Guide for Homer's Odyssey\n\nHere are some great websites if you need any information on the odyssey or Greek mythology.\n\nhttp://schools.lwsd.org/RHJH/homehelp/Odyssey/links.htm\n\nhttp://www.temple.edu/classics/odysseyho.html\n\nhttp://www.sparknotes.com/lit/odyssey/\n\nhttp://education.yahoo.com/homework_help/cliffsnotes/the_odyssey/\n\nhttp://www.ascboston.org/programs/ASCenter/spring05/wednesday-site/odyssey_links.html\n\nFull Text & Resources.\n\nhttp://classics.mit.edu/Homer/odyssey.html\n\nhttp://www.mythweb.com/odyssey/\n\nhttp://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joelja/odyssey.html\n\nhttp://www.cobb.k12.ga.us/~sprayberry/webplan/turnerpagedoc.htm\n\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/19300/data/odyssey.htm\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Oh, golly. This takes me back to high school. If I remember right, an epic is characterized by three things: Length, purpose, and content.\n\nEpics are narrative style, telling a story. The story is culturally significant, and takes a long time to make the point. The Illiad/Oddessy poem, for example, explained to early Greeks how their civilization was unfied for the first time and how the gods played a part in the process. The Aenead, on the other hand, gave evidence to Romans that their ruling family had been divinely selected from the distant past.
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Reminds me of the zen saying about a finger pointing at the moon:\n\n"All instruction is but a finger pointing to the moon;\n and those whose gaze is fixed upon the pointer will \nnever see beyond." \n\nor another metaphor is the Simile of the Raft: \n\n" Similarly, the teachings should not be seen as ends in themselves but as a means to an end. The Buddha likens the Dhamma to a raft: 'I shall show you how the Dhamma is similar to a raft, being for the purpose of crossing over, not for the purpose of grasping'.\n\nHe describes a situation where someone needs to cross 'a great expanse' of water but there is no bridge or ferryboat to get across. So, he decides to build himself a raft and in this way gets to the 'further shore'. He might then say to himself that because this raft has been so helpful to him he should carry it on his head wherever he goes. Or he might decide to put it back into the water and let it go.\n\nThe Buddha points out that it would be foolish for the man to carry the raft around with him - it has served its purpose and is no longer necessary.\n\nIn this simile, the expanse of water is samsara, the circle of birth and death, the place of dukkha or suffering. The raft is the Buddha's teaching and the 'further shore' is Nibbana or Nirvana.\n\nIn short, by using these two similes, the Buddha asks us to orient ourselves appropriately to his teachings. Through them he offers us a vehicle which will bring an end to suffering. What we musn't do is use them in the wrong way...as a means, for example, of scoring intellectual or moral points over others."
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1.snake\n2.imagination
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The film "O Brother Where Art Thou" is based on the Odyssey.
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Idiotic , Ionic , Platonic , Celtic ,Italic, Lyric, Stearic ,Epic, Rustic,Attic, Automatic, Arctic ,Ideologic,Economic,Sulfuric\n\nHope that helps
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shakespearean allusion is common in the text (look at the title: “Oh brave new world that has such people in it...” from The Tempest), also utopian irony ... try that for starters
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Epoch or epic. Epoch means an era. For example the late 1890 epoch. Epic means a long story, the struggle of Odessyus to get back home to his wife Penelope.
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One glance at the back synopsis would reveal that Odysseus is the hero of the Odyssey. (And it is spelled: Odyssey!)\n\nThe epic tells of the story of Odysseus' journey back home to Ithaca from the ruins of Troy. \n\nTrivia!  ~Odysseus is known as Ulysses in Roman Literature.
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Super question because there are several types of epic poems.\n\nI never knew this until I checked, so thanks for asking it!\n \nEpic comes from the Greek word epikos meaning a word, song or speech.\n\n1. You have your "classical epic", a long narrative poem usually about a hero, like the Iliad or the Odyssey\n\n2. Then there's the "literary epic", for example Milton's "Paradise Lost" which is so epic (loooong) you can only read small bits without getting a headache in your eye.\n\n3. The "folk epic", like "Beowulf" is all about the traditions of a nation. Lots of swords and stabbings and bizzare spellings.\n\n4. Any long important (and long) poem like Dante's "Inferno" is an epic just because it is so long. Long is the word here.
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My great-aunt once wrote an entire book about Greek mythology in a sort of story-telling form. It was a very informative book, and it helped me stay aware of Greek and Roman references more often. People (including me) often speak of the weather as being "hotter than Hades" as a more polite way of saying "hotter than hell." Hades was the Greek god of the underworld, which would be compared to a Christian concept of hell. Companies still use these references even today in shoes (like Nike), sporting equipment, technological equipment, flowers (think FTD Florist using Hermes as their symbol), and cleaning supplies (think Ajax). As an English major, I wrote at least two poems with mythological references. I love the musical "My Fair Lady" which is related to "Pygmalion" and the old myth of the man who created his ideal woman. If you watch Disney's "Monsters Inc." there is one part where the little one-eyed monster Mike is contemplating how to smuggle the little girl Boo back into the company, and he uses a Greek reference to the Trojan horse, but dismisses it as "Too Greek!" Children would probably not understand what he said, but those of us who have studied mythology would. I do not use mythology as a replacement for religion, but it helps to understand historical references and symbolism around us.
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Please take a look at this site:  http://litmuse.maconstate.edu/litwiki/index.php/Epic_Poetry\n\nUnder the heading "Characteristics," you will find the characteristics of epics AND it also has examples of those characteristics specifically in Paradise Lost.
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As I recall the story her owes absolutley nothing to them...however we may not be talking about the same Agamemnon here T,T Which story is this from the Odyssey or a different one?\ndamnedatehist@gmail.com -e-mail me if u need help