Question

Read the excerpt from The Odyssey. Six benches were left empty in every ship that evening when we pulled away from death. And this new grief we bore with us to sea: our precious lives we had, but not our friends. No ship made sail next day until some shipmate had raised a cry, three times, for each poor ghost unfleshed by the Cicones on that field. Which key details should be included in a paraphrase of this passage

Answer 1

Answer:

The men were greatly saddened by the loss of their friends.

Many of Odysseus's men did not escape with their lives.

Explanation:

Paraphrasing is the act of rewriting or re-expressing the meaning of a given passage but with the use of different words other than those used by the writer in the original text. This technique allows the readers to understand the passage or text more, and with the use of new and added words, the paraphrase will summarize the whole passage for a better understanding.

The given passage from Homer's "The Odyssey" talks of how the men in their ships go on with their sailing. The main points of the passage are how the deaths are dealt with, and how many men were killed by the Cicones. So, in the paraphrase, the key details should be that many of Odysseus' men were killed. This led to the remaining men to be greatly saddened by the loss of their friends.