Read the excerpt from the odyssey.
in a smithy
one sees a white-hot axehead or an adze
plunged and wrung in a cold tub, screeching steam–
the way they make soft iron hale and hard–:
just so that eyeball hissed around the spike.
the use of the epic simile in this excerpt the reader understand
that the cyclops only has one eye.
how brutal odysseus and his men are.
the size of the wooden spear.
how hot the spear actually is.

Read the excerpt from julius caesar, act 5, scene 5. brutus. why this, volumnius. the ghost of caesar hath appeared to me two several times by night—at sardis once, and this last night, here in philippi fields. i know my hour is come. volumnius. not so, my lord. brutus. nay, i am sure it is, volumnius. thou seest the world, volumnius, how it goes. our enemies have beat us to the pit, [low alarums] it is more worthy to leap in ourselves than tarry till they push us. which prediction about the plot does this passage most support? brutus will replace caesar. brutus will take his own life. brutus will surrender to his enemies. brutus will be forever haunted by caesar.

The story behind the story is a a human interest article b concerned with the feelings of people involved in a headline event ca kind of special feature d all of these e none of these

How does the author create a surprise ending? cite evidence from the text to support your answer.