Which of the following is an example of a simile?
a.) “he was aware of other players around him, helmeted and grotesque, creatures from an unknown world.”
b.) “[the snow] came down in successive white sheets, hardening as it fell…”
c.) “all the living world was ice now, pure white and frozen.”
d.) “a morning wind shook the trees and brought a sweep of yellow leaves like a small, fluttering rainstorm.”

apprenticeships are formal, paid, long-term training programs that provide valuable classroom instruction coupled with on-the-job training for skilled, high-paying jobs.

what are the words supposed to be listed?

in my opinion i think it was not excessive at all. the maids turned against the queen in his absence, how could he ever trust them again? if he let them go they would surely spread the news of the suitor's deaths, which is much too risky. as for the suitors, they were selfish, rude, and greedy. the god's had apparently marked them for death, meaning odysseus made their death come faster.