question :
What are the main benefits of epic poetry that has a tone that positively accentuates confidence and courage?
Answer:
makes us brave and not easy to believe
- user brainly from Indonesia
Answer:
spent with her, I try to think with less bitterness of this act of injustice. She possessed but few slaves; and at her death those were all distributed among her relatives. Five of them were my grandmother's children, and had shared the same milk that nourished her mother's children. Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block.
Explanation:
You didn't italicize any words, so I will just try to explain the figures of speech you have listed above, and hopefully that will help you.
1. hyperbole - this is exaggeration. For example, 'I waited for him for a hundred years' to denote you had to wait for someone for a longer period of time. You didn't really wait for him for a hundred years - it is an exaggeration. Poets and writers often use this figure of speech in order to make a statement, and impact on the reader. I can't see examples of hyperbole in this excerpt, so I wouldn't choose that as the correct option here.
2. paradox - paradox is a figure of speech in which you combine two things which are opposite from each other in nature. It creates an absurd phrase because two contradictory statements are brought together, such as 'drinking a lot of water can make you thirsty.' I can see an example of paradox in the excerpt above, which is "day brought back my night." Day and night are each other's opposites, which makes a paradox if they are brought together like this.
3. understatement - this is a figure of speech which authors use when they want to make something appear to have a lesser value than it actually has; when they want to demean something as being less important that what it seems. An example of an understatement would be the following - you get a lot of money at a lottery, and when asked how you feel about it, you say 'I'm happy.' You would obviously feel much stronger emotions if this happened. I don't see instances of understatement here either.
I would choose paradox as the correct answer here.
<span>The correct answer to the first question is romantic. The speaker of the poem explains how beautiful the face of his beloved is. She is so beautiful that her face could never appear hateful.
The correct answer to the second question is praising. The speaker is praising the subject of the poem, not denouncing her.
The correct answer to the third question is simile. The speaker uses the simile of Eve's apple to make a comparision between the apple and the face of his beloved. It is a simile, not a metaphor, because he says, "How like Eve's apple..."
The correct answer to the fourth question is deception. The simile of Eve's apple symbolizes the deception in beautiful things.
The correct answer to the fifth question is virtue / corruption. The speaker contrasts his beloved's beauty and her virtue to show that her beauty does not reveal her inner corruption.</span>
Avoid it, not go near, stay away.
