1. In "The Trunk of the Olive Tree," Odysseus finally returns home to his wife
Penelope, but she does not trust that it is truly him. How does she verify his true
identity? Cite textual evidence (lines from the poem) to justify your answer.

a test of strength

Explanation: While Penelope doesn’t believe Odysseus I saw himself she tests him by making his shoot an arrow through hallow axes (I believe that it was twelve.) She did this because she knew that nobody else in the kingdom could do such a trick.

there is no reason to represent a false dillemma.

question:

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.