During the games in Scheria, Odysseus identifies himself to the audience stating that his fame has reached the skies. It was not pride that caused him to do this. His pride was foreshadowed by the culture of the Homeric world. A person's name and reputation is very important and declaring your fame is not done out of pride but by cultural practice.
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.
Hello!
I believe your answers are A and D.
I know it is A) because in 3rd sentence in the story is says: "He was very learned in all languages, and knew a great deal about herbs and medicines."
I know it is D) because in the second line in the story it says: " This king was a leper, and all his doctors had been unable to cure him, when a very clever physician came to his court."
I hope it helps!
Answer:
The speaker implies that be being American, she has lost some of the traits (adjectives) that have followed her family - like one of her grandma's traits were 'lonesome for her other life' and the aunt was 'bitter'.
Explanation:
Since the author grew up being American, she didn't have the 'baggage' that other family members had and lost those traits.
