In book 9 of the odyssey, what convention of the epic is homer using in the following passage?
"as a blacksmith plunges an axe or hatchet into cold water to temper it…it makes a great hiss as he does so, even thus did the cyclops' eye hiss round the beam of olive "

a. allusion
b. epic simile
c. epithet
d. invocation

B. Epic simile  is the convention of the epic is Homer using in the above passage.

Epic simile is also identified as Homeric simile. It is called Homeric simile because of the Greek author Homer who uses such simile in his works, The Iliad and The Odyssey. Epic simile is a detailed comparison between two things that extends to many lines in length. 

Hi! your answer would be  the women's association.  here's why:   "the childrens toys" should be "the children's toys".  there's no apostrophe anywhere, and should go after "children". it does  not go after the 's' because children is already plural, and you usually only add an apostrophe after a plural noun ends with an s, like boys or girls, for example. that is the boys' toys."the women's association", is correct.  it's kinda like the one above.  "the childrens' toys", is not correct. reason why is explained in the first one.  "none of these" isn't correct, because "the women's association" is correct.  hoped i and if you have any more questions, ask me.  -dawn

To form soil, the two processes which must occur are erosion and weathering, so the correct answer is "soil formation is a continuous presses, but also one which takes a long time, it can sometimes take more than five hundred years for 1cm of soil to form.