Understanding the odyssey involves more than just reading; it also means understanding the rituals and customs of the greeks around the time of the trojan war. in a way, it is a violation of the ritual of xenia that instigates the trojan war in the first place. which statement explains this violation? menelaus visits odysseus's home, where he is not treated properly. eris is angry that she was not treated properly at the home of , so she throws the apple of discord. upon being treated with extreme xenia and welcomed graciously into the home of menelaus, paris took helen home to troy with him. the suitors at odysseus's state are stretching the bounds of xenia.

Based on the author’s description of long island, the reader can infer that this novel willrelate events about unconventional individuals. relate events that occur directly within the city of new york. relate events that are supernatural and terrifying in nature. relate events having to do with highly privileged individuals.

In emerson’s “society and solitude,” emerson makes three allusions. what are they? question 13 options: francis bacon, irish dayworkers, coeur-de-lions egyptians, thoreau, and parliament cotton mather, odysseus, and farmer’s almanac

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification